Country images you don't see much anymore

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Country Post Office
"The letter N was mistakenly painted backwards on the sign, but the post mistress liked the look of it and kept it."

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"Nellie White milking a cow while her daughter, Flora White, watches. The dairy farm was located east of the Kaw (Kansas) River bridge across from Manhattan, Kansas. 1903."

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I was looking for more information about Nellie and Flora when I ran across this great picture of an old meat market.

"Harry F. Davis, in white apron, became sole owner of the meat market in 1890 and the business lasted over a half a century, closing its doors in the early 1940s."

I love the internet!!!

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6/28/23: Inspectors Hagan and Nellie Smith (right) inspect the yard outside the home of Mrs. Gaetana Demorri in fight against home sweatshops.
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Pappy, your post elsewhere reminded me of this (1940's). I can't remember if we did this subject already or not. :confused:

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One thing among others stands out in my memory as my family traveled in the 50s & 60's is the liter on the roads and polluted streams and rivers. Also, traveling through the south were the "WHITES ONLY" signs on gas station water fountains and restrooms. We lived in Chicago back then and the racial discrimination signs in the south never left my mind even today. To deny a peson a drink of water base on race shocked me as a child.
 
"Three French women tug a plow across a field in the Somme region, 1917. Retreating German soldiers took all the livestock from the area."

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My uncle married his wife and they had 17 children, aunt Nancy was 13, when they got married, they lived on 80 acres, in a dirt floor house for many years, the kids all turned out to be a credit to their parents , they were always happy , when my family visited them, uncle John , and Aunt Nancy died close to one another, they were both in their late 80's
 
john19485 said:
My uncle married his wife and they had 17 children, aunt Nancy was 13, when they got married, they lived on 80 acres, in a dirt floor house for many years, the kids all turned out to be a credit to their parents , they were always happy , when my family visited them, uncle John , and Aunt Nancy died close to one another, they were both in their late 80's
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Thanks for that story, John. I can only imagine how much work was involved just to get through every day. A team effort. Maybe that's one of the secrets to happiness. A sense of accomplishment every day. Suppose?
 

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