55 Amazing Photos That Show Life in Rural America Through the Early to Mid 1900s Volume 3, Colorized

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[@bonkers5016]

I was born in 1966 and even I understand. Never had a pedicure or manicure...These are pictures of people who are simply trying to make it . Yall need to take care of our elderly...their life was hard enough...let's take care of them 💜 ❤

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

Will be 70 in October. No pedicure or manicure for me either, ever. Always seemed a bit bourgeois for my taste.

[@bonkers5016]

@@dr.jamesolack8504 just people being lazy and acting entitled...

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

@@bonkers5016 👍

[@godisalwaysright.3155]

Amen bro. From another 1966 who believe the same thing. We need to take care of them

[@mariekatherine5238]

My grandmother had hands like Mrs. Ostermeyer. She worked hard starting when she left school at age nine. She passed in 2001 at age 102. People were tough in those times, unlike today. RIP, Grandma. 🙏🏽

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

Marie: Your grandma lived in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. That quite a feat! I’ll bet she was a good-hearted soul. Edit: Enjoy your weekend, Marie.

[@mariekatherine5238]

@@dr.jamesolack8504 Yes, she did! I’ve a nephew with the same possibility. He was born December 31, 1999. If he makes to January 1, 2100, he’ll have lived in three centuries.

[@julieblackstock8650]

my great grand mother and grandmother both had hands like this

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

@@mariekatherine5238 👍🙏

[@firebladex8586]

they didn't have that "working hands" product of today

[@godisalwaysright.3155]

I believe that generation have left us. Just a few still hanging around. All we can do is remember and be grateful and thankful.

[@seandelap6268]

The colouration always adds a different perspective to these photos.

[@majorbigss1]

They become humanized

[@KatejL]

Indeed!

[@chrisackerley1842]

When I look at the photo of the ranch mailbox near Farson, Wyoming [@7:32] all I can think of is the sheer guts it took to settle a place like that. Can you imagine coming there with little more than your own two hands, working until you were bone tired every day and knowing all the while you had only a few months to prepare for the coming Winter? That took true courage.

[@queensrule4450]

One's maternal grandfather was born in the early 1900s on a Kansas farm. Maternal grandmother's father drove a hansom cab at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. Paternal grandmother grew up on a Tennessee sharecropping farm. Paternal grandfather was half Cherokee. All that being said, these photographs, so beautifully colored, bring life to what was their existence. It wasn't all hardscrabble, there were some joyful moments. Thank you.

[@Lardenoy]

Quel voyage poétique, malgré la dureté de la vie ! Visages, paysages, personnes âgées, enfants... Vous m'avez entraîné "dans un monde inconnu" le temps de cette vidéo ! Merci et bravo ! Angoulême, France

[@jklynb]

My family is from Brown county Indiana. My great grandparents lived there. This is fascinating to see! I know they lived on eggs , potatoes and whatever they could grow. Wow.

[@Sunshine-fx9op]

Great content and perfect timing between pictures and captions. The colorizing brought life to the people and surroundings! Very well done! Perfect!

[@Lifetalk849]

Beautiful images revealing the dignity of hard work amidst hard times and humble homes. TY!!!

[@catfish24]

We have no idea how good we have it now. When I look at pictures like these I wish I could just reach out to these people and give them money or help them in some way.

[@ilanamillion8942]

The FSA seems to have done an excellent job of documenting people back in the 1930s. Hardworking farmers doing what they needed to survive and to provide for their families.

[@madeleine7411]

Wonderful pictures that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you. My dad was born in 1913 and this gives me a glimpse into his life.

[@judithyoast31]

Simpler times but hard times, no one looked happy. How blessed we truly are. 🙏

[@jlouutube65]

Not for much longer!! Brace yourself!

[@bondmood]

@@jlouutube65 You're not just whistling Dixie!

[@h.smith.6586]

Just looking at these pictures makes me want to kiss my air conditioner and washing machine. Lol

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

An incredible upload and great insight into life back then,thank you for uploading.

[@umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522]

Too much poverty and desolation! Viva the Capitalism! You are free to be poor, ignorant, hungry!

[@matthewpocock4824]

Share cropping reminds me a lot of the feudal system. The serfs did all the work and the Lords got all the profits.

[@Nembula]

How hard life was for these people.

[@louiserobinson6728]

Thank you for sharing these photos from the past. Now this gives a new meaning have a farm at that time. Some of them, weren’t very happy.

[@markcarlson6355]

The" real"America; doesn't matter the color of the skin.

[@jimschuman9926]

Never could understand what difference skin color made.

[@scotnick59]

Excellent colorization great adds to the these fascinating photos!

[@jcc2c22]

Excellent. Best colorization I've ever seen.

[@mrs.g.9816]

The faces of a couple of women told me they led a life of deprivation and back-breaking work. City dwellers who entertain fantasies of running their own farms when they retire had better see this video first.

[@randallmarsh1187]

It wasn't just the women!

[@marycorbett1881]

Loved watching these photos.😀🇬🇧🇺🇸🐝xx

[@hikerx9366]

Man I love this music do much I could watch these videos for hours, weeks months and years. I'm obsessed... 😁. Thanks

[@umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522]

Too much poverty and desolation! Viva the Capitalism! You are free to be poor, ignorant, hungry!

[@pamscarr8696]

My parents went through this as young people. Hard times.

[@kathysenn7664]

Whoever said a picture tells a thousand words, was spot on! Right here we've got how many?!? The dry creek bed at 3:08 spoke a couple extra words to me, for whatever reason, I can't say!

[@nancymoore8026]

Thank you. NICELY DONE.

[@scaredy-cat]

Very hard times in the 30’s, we didn’t emerge from the depression until about 1942 as war production ramped up

[@downbntout]

Compared to now, how lean and hungry-looking they were

[@rowdyyates8626]

Hard times back then. My Dad and his brothers and sisters picked cotton from sunup to sundown. Sunburn,sunburn blisters and fingers cut from picking the cotton, carrying a 100 ft cotton sack behind them. Never any money but enough to eat because they raised and grew it all. My grandmother made peoples clothes and ironed them, while my grandfather repaired peoples shoes. They did this after being in the cotton fields all day. My family was know for their honesty and highly thought of in Selfs,Texas.

[@pim1234]

Funny as you see as time goes by, things get cleaner and better for almost everyone ...

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Thoroughly enjoyable also really enjoyed the " The everyday life of a Minnesota Familyin the late 50s"but comments were switched off on that so thought I'd comment on here about that on here,someone had taken time to photograph the everyday kind of things on there whether bed making,wash room work or similar there was so much even exercising a pet rabbit,it really was like being with them in the 50s,I wonder what it would be like chatting with someone back then as they were,for sure that's my Mums era and she served ice creams in cinemas As a youngster back then in UK and remembers the days of Bill Haley. I'd say speak to older folk let them tell you about there life in the good old days it helps them relive the past and us to learn history from them. Big thank you for the constant uploads from the uploader there much appreciated, Best wishes to the uploader,family, friends and fellow followers.

[@umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522]

Too much poverty and desolation! Viva the Capitalism! You are free to be poor, ignorant, hungry!

[@eldepavas]

Amazing how many people commenting think the Great Depression were the Good Old Times. ◔_◔

[@umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522]

Too much poverty and desolation! Viva the Capitalism! You are free to be poor, ignorant, hungry!

[@darlahaines6928]

Farm Security Admin photographers Russell Lee and John Vachon also took pictures of Minnesota urban and rural life in this same era. The Minnesota Historical Society published their photo collections in a book called Picturing Minnesota. Included farmers, Native Americans picking blueberries, migrant workers, Iron Range miners, lumberjacks, food processing workers, etc... My favorite photo is the Swedish American farmer opening his mouth to take a chew of snoose. Bonus--The source of the bar scene in the intro to the Cheers TV sitcom is a FSA photo, and is included in this book!

[@roberthurley6860]

Thank you for these wonderful photos!

[@Ann65.]

Thanks once again! Have a great weekend!

[@nancyyonce2906]

THE PHOTOS WERE AMAZING. THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!

[@funkibloo3811]

Thank you❗️👍

[@CGH250]

Loved the pics. My family owned farms in Chatham County NC and Granville County NC. I enjoyed the old pictures you had from those places.

[@2centsworth766]

Wonderfully done. Thank you.

[@sue3119]

I really enjoyed looking at all the old photos ❤️

[@philipcallicoat3147]

These are the people who are being blamed for how rotten things are today!!!🤬💔

[@conniehubbell7383]

That was quite amazing, thanks

[@sharonlegnon7411]

At 10:53 that picture became artwork.

[@sunshinem3958]

Thank you, well done

[@susansmith493]

When young people say it's harder financially now than ever before, I always say, no it's not ...not by a long shot.

[@katewelsh5182]

Would it be possible to see old photos of early Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia?

[@markwalford-groom]

a much more honest look back at history

[@mandolinfields8759]

💕 Families and communities were close

[@Karenaboutfairness]

I know times were harder then but at the same time they seemed easier. I remember all the stories I've heard from older generations and it seemed like back then it was easier to get a home and things you needed but it was harder to get by.

[@butterflybud1]

Some of the children look happy ,but the Husbands and Wives look worn out.Hard times.!

[@catherine4970]

Wow! Very awesome. ❤️👍🏻

[@granmabern5283]

That was interesting thanks from Canada

[@cathykristensen4440]

Incredible!!! THANK YOU!😊

[@jeffflewelling1703]

The fact that most people were thinner back then should have made them healthier and had longer lives than people today. However, there was a lot of heavy smoking back then that more than offset the health aspect of being thinner.

[@jesseostone386]

That’s somewhat of a myth. Think about the state of medical and dental knowledge back then, where an injury or an infected tooth could have devastating outcomes. Throw in nutritional imbalances, and you have a recipe for shortened lifespans.

[@bondmood]

Now everyone's just smoking pot. 😒

[@dianal1991]

Maybe Tobacco didn’t have all the carcinogens back then.

[@annemiura7767]

Hard work, no medical care, little food and childbirth killed people, smoking just added to the problem.

[@jefferyhall4137]

I know thing's wouldn't be as easy or convenient, & there would be a lot of hard work, but if I could I would go back to those time's in a second I wouldn't give it a second thought! Great upload!👍

[@jimschuman9926]

I second that! What’s going on today, totally sucks.

[@John_Fugazzi]

What is this "resettlement" that is mentioned frequently in the captions?

[@kengoodwin5838]

Nice

[@Rosethatwantstomove]

I lived about 15 miles from buckeye lake back in the 60s & 70s.

[@jandrews6254]

The good ole days that we keep hearing about. I guess everyone’s teeth took a hammering but I was particularly saddened by the women, truly “have a child, lose a tooth”. And their hands! Working hard dawn to dusk and beyond as soon as they could walk. Yes, the men too but being a woman - smaller and not as strong as a man - that really hits home. I hope we aren’t headed back in that direction.

[@annemiura7767]

You are so right. My mum who grew up out in the bush in Australia had a saying from her mother - “ a man he works from sun to sun but a woman’s work is never done “. These photos show these wonderful people who had such hard lives, young people today can’t even imagine it.

[@lisagoff1503]

Anne Miura amazing! I live in the Ozarks and my mother in law used to say that too!

[@sharonrozier4984]

Most of these folks do not look happy at all. The man with his sheep look kind of happy.

[@Name-ps9fx]

These pics are awesome, and help me visualize how my parents and grandparents lived....do you know if there are similar videos showing European life between late 1870s-1940s? I'd love to see that too!

[@debrapaulino918]

Mine came to WI Territory 1840 from NY to homestead. The woman's hands lest we forget. I'd love to have that one on my wall.

[@kunzklingsor9156]

Lastly, look at the lady's hands at 1.43, they did not get like that putting on make up.

[@joshuadarden7200]

Brown county is a nice place I've stayed at a cabin there. Nashville Indiana is a cool little town.

[@bbrcummins1984]

And now we have a generation of crybabies .

[@jimschuman9926]

Exactly

[@HappyComfort]

Great music by Kevin Macleod! Interesting pictures!

[@stairwaytoheaven4330]

tempos difíceis geram homens fortes, homens fortes geram tempos fáceis, tempos fáceis geram homens fracos.

[@larryking1673]

Coming soon to your town.

[@timothyblack2185]

Pictures are great, however, the music does Not go with the pictures of the time period.

[@Evermore2017]

What app colorizes this well?

[@bondmood]

Reminds me a little of the movie Paper Moon.

[@donkique956]

The child at the 0:40 mark might still be alive in her early to mid 90's.

[@etenyenhuis1]

whta's the musical background beginning around 7.45, please...

[@valeriejewell2015]

I would prefer the black and white, more honest.....

[@annford6640]

Explanation regarding the Farm Security Administration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration . Explanation of the Resettlement Administration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_Administration#:~:text=The%20Resettlement%20Administration%20(RA)%20was,by%20the%20Farm%20Security%20Administration.

[@mquietsch6736]

Can anybody explain to an uncomprehending European what is all that about "resettlement clients"? I have no idea what it could mean.

[@Klebkatt]

I'm not sure, but I think it's a fancy phrase for "The government is buying your land and now we need to move you somewhere else". The land here may have been bought by the government for roads, buildings, and things like that; thus, the government has to provide payment to the owner of the home and land and perhaps help resettle them in a different location. If the government really wanted to, it could use 'eminent domain' which says they have to have the land regardless of the owner being willing to sell or not. They still have to pay you what the land is worth, and in that case, will probably help move you, though I'm not sure if it requires the government to do so. TVA did this in my home state (Tennessee) to create dams and reservoirs, which obviously buried many previously inhabited areas underwater. This is also what happened for most if not all of the national parks to be created, like the Smoky Mountains. EDIT: A company could also do this, though they couldn't use eminent domain and bigger companies probably hired goons to scare land owners into selling if they wouldn't comply. They would buy the land to build the building on and at this time, they'd also build homes for the workers and their families to live onsite and often times they'd end up being like a small city unto themselves with company owned grocery stores and whatnot. The song Sixteen Tons is based around the concept of this time when monopolies were allowed and not kept in check. A lot of abuse happened.

[@theheartoftexas]

Under one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs of the 1930’s, the Federal Government had a goal of moving a lot of people off of bad farmland and onto better farmland (usually farther west). Additionally, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were included. This was during the Great Depression of the 1930’s, and also on the heels of the Dust Bowl disaster of the Midwest plains. The plan wasn’t very successful for a variety of reasons: it was viewed as Socialism, it moved people into culturally different communities, communities didn’t welcome migrant farmers. It was disbanded by the end of the 1930’s.

[@mquietsch6736]

@@theheartoftexas Thank you. Interesting. I can imagine how that plan would have met with opposition.

[@bondmood]

@@theheartoftexas Horrible president. Thank God there was Churchill.

[@tericarter2019]

Who is the artist/musicians of the wonderful songs that are heard with the photographs?

[@HungryHillSarah]

Not a lot has changed in Malheur County, OR ;)

[@Name-ps9fx]

Last pic of two boys fishing, and captioned "Parish school nearby." Playing a little hookey, perhaps? 🤣🎣

[@blossom1643]

Wow! I love your videos! Such a lovely simple time! Shoot it even Documents that White people had hard times TOO. Who da thought?✌️

[@jeffbarnes54]

Not a time I would want to repeat for anyone

[@penelopelopez8296]

People back then don’t realize how fortunate they were to have opportunities to work on farms. Today, it’s mostly retail slave work for wealthy corporates.

[@End-Putler4eva]

South, central or north america. All of these continents have rural parts to them. Which continent is this video referring to?

[@aldenwenger9286]

Interesting plant at 1:59 🤔

[@kayguzman4318]

It’s a castor bean plant. My hubby grows them in his garden. The seeds are poisonous ,they contain ricin a very toxic substance.

[@jamescasey4643]

Notice how thin everyone is?

[@tinadenning3186]

Not sure about the colonization. How do they determine ?

[@dennisleporte2327]

You want poor ? This is poor.

[@umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522]

Too much poverty and desolation! Viva the Capitalism! You are free to be poor, ignorant, hungry!

[@sherose7856]

The facial point of view in order to have a happy life is to have no partiality to any group of people on the earth it affects our over all well being for sure love neighbor as yourself or look like sour lemons.

[@nygrl6102]

6:39 Is that Lyle Lovett!? Could be a relative!

[@bettyir4302]

That man might have lived on a cotton patch but that's not cotton in his hand.

[@davesblasting7457]

America ( U.S.) Has had some real socialist programs even though as a country they officially eschew such notions. I have always been shocked by the poverty there.

[@amychristian1812]

Baltimore maryland

[@ceciledesjardins3333]

Evicted share croppers !! Misery over misery

[@Tysto]

Dirt is not green. Overalls are not brown.

[@downbntout]

So many sunken faces because of missing teeth

[@firouzagamieldien5997]

Nobody overweight.

[@chrisskinner6291]

So much fake junk is showed 2 us

[@fortnitepro61frfrongofficial]

Stop 🛑 🛑