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Posts Tagged: 1930s

  • March 27, 2012

    Hiking Germany

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Teenagers hiking across the German countryside is nothing new.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 11, 2012

    At Play

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    For two generations family owned Scurlock Studio photographed Washington DC’s African American community.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • November 9, 2011

    Photobooth Friends

    BY Abigail Wilson

    Before the days of digital scanners and ID chips, getting a valid passport was down to producing a tiny 2″ x 2″ image of yourself.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 27, 2011

    Dionne Quints

    BY Amelia Stein

    Tough times in a tiny town, circa 1934: a woman named Elzire Dionne gives birth to the world’s first known quintuplets near the village of Corbeil in Ontario, Canada.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 23, 2011

    Farm Girls

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Mexican girls, carrot workers, Edinburg, Texas. 1939

    A spectrum of farm girls—from the 4-H farm lifestyle to young migrant workers in the fields, just trying to deal—during the Great Depression.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • May 10, 2011

    Free Ride

    BY Willa Nasatir

    During the Great Depression, “Boxcar Children” and “Roving Boys” traveled across America via the tops of boxcars and freight trains.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • April 20, 2011

    Wrong & Right

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Wrong: Siren effect produced by slinky black dress and up-hairdo is inappropriate.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • April 12, 2011

    Camp Nizhoni

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Every summer, Colorado girls took the train from Denver to Pinecliff on their way to the fresh mountain air and wilderness of Camp Nizhoni.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • March 26, 2011

    Wandering Birds

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Jon Savage recently wrote a fascinating article for Vice on the Wandervogel and German youth gangs in the 1930s.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • March 15, 2011

    Dutch High

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Follow a Dutch high school through ninety years of existence.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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