The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[RBH]

Prairie City, Missouri, in Mississippi County

1936 Mar

Mydans, Carl, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

 

[gtdean48]

...

Notice the right side bow on hat of guy in overalls...

 

[alanfgag]

Or backwards, perhaps.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Fishing season soon.

 

[Dan Allen]

Notice the right side bow on hat of guy in overalls...

Is it any coincidence that our economic decline began about the time that as a nation we became too proud to
squat, and all the economies that began to rise came from nations of squatters--Asians?? The members from
farming communities may know more what I'm talking about.

 

[gtdean48]

Or backwards, perhaps.

The crown in the middle is unique for sure too.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[Fletch]

Not so much for the hats as for an unusually intimate view of people at a moment in time when large-format vernacular photography was very rare. Solar eclipse watchers on the 86th floor deck of the Empire State Building, August 31, 1932.

 

[splintercellsz]

 

[splintercellsz]

5th Avenue and Broadway c. 1910-1915

 

[hatsRme]

5th Avenue and Broadway c. 1910-1915

Yo, Justin! Is that an early Mercedes bus centering the mandala?

 

[splintercellsz]

It looks to be!

 

[splintercellsz]

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Coney Island, 1951

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Bardot

 

[splintercellsz]

1922: Chicago Women being arrested for wearing one piece bathing suits, without the required leg coverings.

 

[hatophile]

Oh my, the gals are practically naked these days at the beach!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Tourists admire the beauty and size of the Washington Monument, April 1935.

 

[splintercellsz]

57 legendary jazz musicians photographed in Harlem, NY in 1958