Old-Time Happy Housewifery

Album: 30¢ House

A visit with the Whinery family. Jack Whinery arrived in Pie Town, New Mexico with 30¢ which he spent for nails to build his dugout. (June 1940)

Album: Cattle Rancher's Daughter

Milking, cooking, drawing, and saddling up to drive stock -- rancher's daughter Mary Mutz makes it all look as easy as apple pie. Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. (Feb. 1943)

Album: Bless This Home

This family's simple, happy home is full of warmth and activity. Riding horses, pumping water, and holding the baby is part of everyday life for the Smith children. Carroll County, Georgia. (April 1941)

Album: Brooklyn Family Budget

The Caputos live in the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Caputo is a good steward of the income that Mr. Caputo earns for their family.

Album: Carolina Country

A tobacco sharecropper's wife shares common ground with women across continents and ages through these simple rituals: put food on the table, clean up the mess, bathe the baby. Person County, North Carolina. (July 1939)

Album: King of the Road

Bernard "Red" Cochran of Cincinnati, Ohio is a Greyhound bus driver with a perfect record of fourteen years, never having had an accident while driving a bus. Does that make him King of the Road?

Album: Daddy's Home

The Shorts family doesn't come up short on family togetherness. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. (July 1938)

Album: Dinner in Dead Ox Flat Oregon

The Wardlows moved from a draught area farm and are now adjusting to a Western farm in Dead Ox Flat, Oregon. We follow Mrs. Wardlow home from church, look around the place a little bit, then watch as she prepares her family's dinner. (Oct. 1939)

Album: Dynamic Duo

The mother and daughter of a tenant farming family near Muskogee, Oklahoma perform their respective duties on an average day in July 1939.