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November 1940. "Agricultural day laborer, wife and daughter in new home built by the FSA. Delmo labor homes project, New Madrid County, Missouri." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Momma is a danged good housekeeper. Everything in that room; clothes, tablecloth, bed linen, is spotless. Even the lamp has been polished.
... if your parents let a stranger photograph you when your hair is still rolled in rags! Why not wait until your curls are set free?
When as a child I produced a petulant pout, my parents and sister would sing-song: "We're going to town on Jenny's lip ..."
I've got a ton of family in that area and that gentleman would fit right in. If I didn't know better, I might believe you if you said he was my great grandpa.
then a double homicide might be imminent.
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