At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)

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the older girls have white cuffs on their sleeves

The girls' dresses look like feedsack fabric or the mother got a deal on it so she made three from the same bolt.

Puzzled? Which way to go.....

same barrettes for the two older girls as well as their own feedsack print dresses.

assumably the girl to the right has a little blue tie at the collar, and I bet the girl to the left has a white-trimmed keyhole buttoned opening in the back.

7 kids. wonder if they are all her's?

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Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

1941 Sept.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Vermont State Fair--(1941 :--Rutland, Vt.)
Fairs
Children
United States--Vermont--Rutland

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-3 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33924

Call Number: LC-USF35-54

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	dandlymambly says: I love the look on that girl's face! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	hasret_sali says: kizlar grubu diye ben buna derim,,, kutuphanenize cok tesekkur ederiz bu tarihi fotograflari bizlerle paylastiginiz icin emegi gecen herkesin eline saglik Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	davidflanders says: almost looks like a movie set: how clean cut they all are! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	serendipity.rachael says: it is amazing to see photos from this era in color! IT does look like a movie set~! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	Robert Harrison says: My wife commented on how the girls are probably wearing homemade dresses. She's very jealous. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	Hippie Gal says: It looks as if they're a bit overwhelmed at all the things to see! My mother told me that back then they would buy their flour in large sacks. These sacks were made of colorful fabric. The mother would save the fabric and then make dresses for the children with it. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	rula says: the colors are so vivid. what a lovely picture! and to think, i was just near rutland a couple weeks ago... Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	My Symbiosis says: Possibly younger brother in the center being "protected"? He looks as if he needs to find the restroom. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	fotos-de-alejandra says: Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	taylorsevens says: although i love B&W.......old color photo's make the past seem real in a way that B&W cannot.......it is if you were actually there at that moment in time Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	spring thinking says: I see six sisters, one brother and a mother in this photo. I am also going to guess that this mother might be pregnant with another baby, judging from the way she is holding the little girl in blue. I love the homemade matching dresses. I wonder if they are from feedsacks, as Hippie Gal said, or if Mom splurged on a bolt of fabric to make these? Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	perfgeek says: The boy is probably lucky his shirt wasn't made from the same fabric! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	Stew Stryker says: Great color! I saw the girls' matching dresses and guessed that Mom bought a bolt of the fabric and made all their dresses from it. I had no clue that flour sacks came in bright colors and could be re-used! I'd have to see that. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	He Who Must Be Named says: Chances are those dresses were hand made from the same bolt of cloth. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	annick vanderschelden says: Look at the gentleman with the hat. He is serious. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	DianthusMoon says: I can imagine they each have a few pennies or a nickel and are deciding where or what to spend them on. Reminds me of the Sound of Music when Maria made the children matching clothes from the curtains! The boy is lucky to not have that fabric as mentioned above. Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	jdavis417 says: Tile: "The last time we seen Pa" or "I told you to slow down on the lemonade" If Ma woulda' had one more yard of calico, Little Jimmy might have turned out gender confused. Keep yer eyes peeled for a restroom, girls. Lord help me. I cannot stop myself! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	adharasavi says: so beautiful !!! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	notkenzie says: Where ever she got the fabric it looks like a great way to keep track of you kids in public - go team red! Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
	Ms. A.R. says: "...He looks as if he needs to find the restroom. " Good eye, My Symbiosis -- he certainly does! Perhaps that's why mom and the girls are all looking in different directions? Hoping to catch a glimpse of which way the facilities might be? Hmmm... I'm looking at the pic as if the scene is happening in present time. Isn't it amazing how a good photo can transport us right into the time and space the participants were experiencing?? It's such a treat that the L.O.C. has made these old treasures available to us here! Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )
	littlebigyee says: It looks like there is so much commotion at the state fair, that everybody is looking at something different! I love the color in the children's clothes. It reminds me when my mother used to dress and match my sisters and me in the same outfits. Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )
	Cassies grandma says: www.womenfolk.com/quilting_history/feedsacks. htm Here is an article on feed and flour sacks. I remember there were patterns that called for 5 sacks or whatever. I was quite young but I had feed sack dresses and curtains. There are now reproductions of those fabrics that quilters are very fond of and believe me are pricey. Check out ebay once for them. Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)

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