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

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  • @bonkers5016
    @bonkers50162 жыл бұрын

    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

    @dr.jamesolack8504

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bonkers5016

    @bonkers5016

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @dr.jamesolack8504

    @dr.jamesolack8504

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bonkers5016 👍

  • @godisalwaysright.3155

    @godisalwaysright.3155

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine52382 жыл бұрын

    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

    @dr.jamesolack8504

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @mariekatherine5238

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @julieblackstock8650

    Жыл бұрын

    my great grand mother and grandmother both had hands like this

  • @dr.jamesolack8504

    @dr.jamesolack8504

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mariekatherine5238 👍🙏

  • @firebladex8586

    @firebladex8586

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @queensrule4450
    @queensrule44502 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @seandelap6268
    @seandelap62682 жыл бұрын

    The colouration always adds a different perspective to these photos.

  • @majorbigss1

    @majorbigss1

    2 жыл бұрын

    They become humanized

  • @KatejL

    @KatejL

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed!

  • @godisalwaysright.3155
    @godisalwaysright.3155 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sunshine-fx9op
    @Sunshine-fx9op2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @chrisackerley1842
    @chrisackerley18422 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jklynb
    @jklynb2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Lardenoy
    @Lardenoy Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Lifetalk849
    @Lifetalk849 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @catfish24
    @catfish242 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @SunShine-dk6rk
    @SunShine-dk6rk2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @madeleine7411
    @madeleine7411 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ilanamillion8942
    @ilanamillion8942 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @judithyoast31
    @judithyoast312 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jlouutube65

    @jlouutube65

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not for much longer!! Brace yourself!

  • @bondmood

    @bondmood

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jlouutube65 You're not just whistling Dixie!

  • @Nembula
    @Nembula2 жыл бұрын

    How hard life was for these people.

  • @h.smith.6586
    @h.smith.65862 жыл бұрын

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

  • @louiserobinson6728
    @louiserobinson67282 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @matthewpocock4824
    @matthewpocock48242 жыл бұрын

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

  • @scotnick59
    @scotnick592 жыл бұрын

    Excellent colorization great adds to the these fascinating photos!

  • @jcc2c22
    @jcc2c222 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Best colorization I've ever seen.

  • @hikerx9366
    @hikerx93662 жыл бұрын

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

  • @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pamscarr8696
    @pamscarr86962 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kathysenn7664
    @kathysenn76642 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @SunShine-dk6rk
    @SunShine-dk6rk2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nancymoore8026
    @nancymoore8026 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. NICELY DONE.

  • @nancyyonce2906
    @nancyyonce29062 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mrs.g.9816
    @mrs.g.98162 жыл бұрын

    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

    @randallmarsh1187

    2 жыл бұрын

    It wasn't just the women!

  • @marycorbett1881
    @marycorbett1881 Жыл бұрын

    Loved watching these photos.😀🇬🇧🇺🇸🐝xx

  • @rowdyyates8626
    @rowdyyates8626 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @darlahaines6928
    @darlahaines6928 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @eldepavas
    @eldepavas2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @roberthurley6860
    @roberthurley68602 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for these wonderful photos!

  • @katewelsh5182
    @katewelsh51822 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CGH250
    @CGH250 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Ann65.
    @Ann65.2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks once again! Have a great weekend!

  • @markcarlson6355
    @markcarlson6355 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jimschuman9926

    @jimschuman9926

    Жыл бұрын

    Never could understand what difference skin color made.

  • @sharonlegnon7411
    @sharonlegnon74112 жыл бұрын

    At 10:53 that picture became artwork.

  • @scaredy-cat
    @scaredy-cat Жыл бұрын

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

  • @funkibloo3811
    @funkibloo3811 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you❗️👍

  • @pim1234
    @pim123411 ай бұрын

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

  • @2centsworth766
    @2centsworth7662 жыл бұрын

    Wonderfully done. Thank you.

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @markwalford-groom
    @markwalford-groom2 жыл бұрын

    a much more honest look back at history

  • @conniehubbell7383
    @conniehubbell73832 жыл бұрын

    That was quite amazing, thanks

  • @sue3119
    @sue3119 Жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed looking at all the old photos ❤️

  • @sunshinem3958
    @sunshinem3958 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, well done

  • @Karenaboutfairness
    @Karenaboutfairness2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @susansmith493
    @susansmith4932 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mandolinfields8759
    @mandolinfields8759 Жыл бұрын

    💕 Families and communities were close

  • @John_Fugazzi
    @John_Fugazzi2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @granmabern5283
    @granmabern52832 жыл бұрын

    That was interesting thanks from Canada

  • @catherine4970
    @catherine49702 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Very awesome. ❤️👍🏻

  • @Name-ps9fx
    @Name-ps9fx Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @philipcallicoat3147
    @philipcallicoat31472 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cathykristensen4440
    @cathykristensen44402 жыл бұрын

    Incredible!!! THANK YOU!😊

  • @jeffflewelling1703
    @jeffflewelling17032 жыл бұрын

    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

    @jesseostone386

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @bondmood

    Жыл бұрын

    Now everyone's just smoking pot. 😒

  • @dianal1991

    @dianal1991

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @annemiura7767

    @annemiura7767

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @kengoodwin5838
    @kengoodwin58382 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @jefferyhall4137
    @jefferyhall41372 жыл бұрын

    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

    @jimschuman9926

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @butterflybud1
    @butterflybud1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Rosethatwantstomove
    @Rosethatwantstomove Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jandrews6254
    @jandrews62542 жыл бұрын

    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

    @annemiura7767

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @lisagoff1503

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @joshuadarden7200
    @joshuadarden7200 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @sharonrozier4984
    @sharonrozier49842 жыл бұрын

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

  • @stairwaytoheaven4330
    @stairwaytoheaven4330 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @debrapaulino918
    @debrapaulino918 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @HappyComfort
    @HappyComfort2 жыл бұрын

    Great music by Kevin Macleod! Interesting pictures!

  • @Evermore2017
    @Evermore20172 жыл бұрын

    What app colorizes this well?

  • @kunzklingsor9156
    @kunzklingsor91562 жыл бұрын

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

  • @larryking1673
    @larryking16732 жыл бұрын

    Coming soon to your town.

  • @timothyblack2185
    @timothyblack21852 жыл бұрын

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

  • @etenyenhuis1
    @etenyenhuis12 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins19842 жыл бұрын

    And now we have a generation of crybabies .

  • @jimschuman9926

    @jimschuman9926

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @bondmood
    @bondmood Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me a little of the movie Paper Moon.

  • @annford6640
    @annford66402 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tericarter2019
    @tericarter20192 жыл бұрын

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

  • @valeriejewell2015
    @valeriejewell20152 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HungryHillSarah
    @HungryHillSarah2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @donkique956
    @donkique95611 ай бұрын

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

  • @End-Putler4eva
    @End-Putler4eva Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Name-ps9fx
    @Name-ps9fx Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jeffbarnes54
    @jeffbarnes54 Жыл бұрын

    Not a time I would want to repeat for anyone

  • @mquietsch6736
    @mquietsch67362 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Klebkatt

    @Klebkatt

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @theheartoftexas

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @mquietsch6736

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bondmood

    @bondmood

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @aldenwenger9286
    @aldenwenger92862 жыл бұрын

    Interesting plant at 1:59 🤔

  • @kayguzman4318

    @kayguzman4318

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tinadenning3186
    @tinadenning31862 жыл бұрын

    Not sure about the colonization. How do they determine ?

  • @dennisleporte2327
    @dennisleporte23272 жыл бұрын

    You want poor ? This is poor.

  • @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    @umfilhodedeustotalmenteama5522

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nygrl6102
    @nygrl61022 жыл бұрын

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

  • @blossom1643
    @blossom16432 жыл бұрын

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

  • @penelopelopez8296
    @penelopelopez8296 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sherose7856
    @sherose78562 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @amychristian1812
    @amychristian18122 жыл бұрын

    Baltimore maryland

  • @jamescasey4643
    @jamescasey46432 жыл бұрын

    Notice how thin everyone is?

  • @bettyir4302
    @bettyir4302 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @davesblasting7457
    @davesblasting74572 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ceciledesjardins3333
    @ceciledesjardins3333 Жыл бұрын

    Evicted share croppers !! Misery over misery

  • @Tysto
    @Tysto2 жыл бұрын

    Dirt is not green. Overalls are not brown.

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout2 жыл бұрын

    So many sunken faces because of missing teeth

  • @firouzagamieldien5997
    @firouzagamieldien5997 Жыл бұрын

    Nobody overweight.

  • @chrisskinner6291
    @chrisskinner6291 Жыл бұрын

    So much fake junk is showed 2 us

  • @fortnitepro61frfrongofficial
    @fortnitepro61frfrongofficial Жыл бұрын

    Stop 🛑 🛑