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Monday 9 August 2010

Dance

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Image, Source: digital file from original slide

Orchestra at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940

The night was warm

Image, Source: digital file from original slide

Scene at square dance in rural home, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940

Everyone wanted to dance

Image, Source: digital file from original slide

Children asleep on bed during square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940

The kids got tired



Photos by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

3 comments:

Mike C. said...

Love the brevity of this one! How it ends with "The kids got tired," heh, makes me laugh.

TC said...

Yes -- human life.

Elmo St. Rose said...

Also to sound stinkingly patriot
but also historically and
experientally correct:

Most of the founding fathers
were lovers and so are most
of the average Americans

simple eros
is frequently
the boss

as you would expect
with free women
and men
the poor as well
after all
the best things
in life are free
sort of