All posts in this taxonomy.

Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision of Miss Evelyn M. Driver (standing in white uniform). Everything they make including the small handmade looms, utilizes materials of local origin as cornshucks, cane, flour and meal and feed sacks, etc. Flint River Farms, Georgia

FSA Georgia Home Demonstration Home Ec Wolcott

Typical old tenant’s house with bedding being aired and sunned. Coffee County, Alabama

Alabama FSA Wolcott

Typical old tenant’s house with bedding being aired and sunned. Coffee County, Alabama

Alabama FSA Wolcott

Jorena Pettway making flower decorations for her home. She has made practically all her own furniture and her own bedspreads and chair covers from flour sacks, etc. Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Alabama FSA Wolcott

Jorena Pettway and her daughter making chair cover out of bleached flour sacks and flower decorations from paper. She also made the chairs and practically all the furniture in the house. Gees Bend, Alabama

Alabama FSA Wolcott

Mrs. Verden Lee sewing on her new sewing machine in her home. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

FSA Louisiana Wolcott

Mrs. Clarence N. Pace with her children and her mother-in-law quilting in their home. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

FSA Louisiana Wolcott

Interior of shack described in other pictures. Mr. W.R. Carpenter of Beaumont, Texas also a truck driver, seated on bed. Men very willing to have photo made, saying they should cooperate in this undertaking as they were all free Americans and hoped for better conditions. Alexandria, Louisiana

FSA Louisiana Wolcott

Buying dress goods in project cooperative store. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

FSA Louisiana Wolcott

Mrs. L.L. LeCompt stitching quilt squares together. She does all her family sewing. Coffee County, Alabama

Alabama FSA Wolcott