Friday, January 18, 2008

Library of Congress Releases Photos on Flickr

"Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims ... Mrs. Stagg helps her husband in the field with plowing planting, weeding corn and harvesting beans. She quilts while she rests during the noon hour. 1940~ October"


For a great article on Pie Town and photographer Lee Russell in Smithsonian Magazine, click here. To peruse the Library of Congress Collection on Flickr, click here.

4 comments:

newbluebaby said...

Wow these are great! How DID you know!?

anne altman said...

a little one eyed baby with an attitude told me. do you know him?

newbluebaby said...

Yea I know him. He owes me $20!!

anne altman said...

ME TOO!