Farms of America in color 1939-1943
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The Whinery family
Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family in Pie Town, N.M., in October 1940. The Whinerys lived in a dugout house and covered the walls with cardboard to keep the dirt from flaking into the home's interior. Most dugouts had a short life, since once the farmers had enough money, they would build plank or rock homes. However, the dugouts had a second life as shelter for the livestock.
Reproduction from color slide.
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What a dismal future written in the face of the couple. No wonder people practice birth control today. Can you imagine anyone living in a dug out house with all of those kids? No wonder we have CPS. Of course living in the projects collecting welfare isn't any better.
Family size was larger when people anticipated needing help with a farm. It is very austere, and I don't think many people of modern times could imagine living this way but I would imagine that many of us would not live without cable, a big screen tv or two cars in the driveway either.
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