Sevier County, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee, 1933...
Source
National Archives Lewis Hine photographer
Note the curtains, tied up for optimum light to enter.
Other homes that have curtains, or not, in their windows. Owners standing outside is a familiar way that the photographer could immortalize them.
Post Office in Cades Cove. Sisters Mary Clementine Boring Raines, and Myrna Faye Boring Hall 1936
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A more recent photo of a North Carolina cabin
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Sharing with Sepia Saturday (this week with some old photos!)
Today's quote:
Make a habit out of celebrating the small moments in healing, gratitude, and growth. |
ALEX ELLE Today's art:  Unknown artist |
People in & beside their homes - a good match to the prompt. And I absolutely LOVE the painting you've shared of the woman dancing amongst the flowers - pansies maybe? - against a rising or setting sun. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe stare of the three ladies makes me wonder whether the photographer got away alive after he shot this picture.
ReplyDeleteAnd the painting is beautiful indeed!
After the cold spell of the last few weeks I can't help but admire the fortitude of the old mountain folk who lived in such handmade homes and must have endured far colder winters than we do now. The dresses of the three women remind me of the kind of dresses my great grandmother wore. She was a country girl, too, and in countless family photos spanning a several decades she always seems to be wearing the same dress. Her idea of fashion was practical and frugal. I have one of her braided rugs, easily over a 100 years old now, that was made from rags and fabric scraps like that dress material.
ReplyDeleteI found it fascinating to see the early homes that many people constructed for themselves . There is so much character revealed in that image of the three women - I have one rather similar from the 195os of my mother and friends in their hats and clutching their handbags- not altogether flattering!
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