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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Survivors

 

These are supposedly the tracks of wagons going west in AZ. There is argument about it.



Annie  Liebowitz with camera and assistant - do you recognize the building? Photographed by John Leongard


Stalled on the desert near Idaho, 1937, taken by Dorthea Lange


Nebraska, pioneer family in 1880.


Apsaroke man in winter of 1908 in Montana, photo by Edward S. Curtis

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week, where a couple of strawberry vendors are a bit sad. Will they and their horse survive for another day? Who knows.


Today's quote:

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. / They do not sweat and whine about their condition, / They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, / They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, / Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, / Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, / Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)

21 comments:

  1. Good quote. Interesting photos. Thankyou

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  2. Great photos and quote! Take care, enjoy your weekend!

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    1. Thanks, I enjoy saving some I find just for these prompts. Hope your weekend is great!

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  3. ...the Dust Bowl, how did they survive it?

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  4. Wonderful old photos, they show us what life was like for our ancestors.

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  5. Love the old photos and the quote. Have a wonderful weekend.

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    1. Hope you enjoy the weekend, and I do enjoy finding these (usually through Facebook)

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  6. The horse looks like he might not have made it another day.

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  7. YOu find such interesting photos. Are you on the mend?

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    1. Thanks, I like hunting for some interesting photos. Mending is slow, coughing a lot still...as always, lots of resting to do. I finally got some audio books from library. Susan Wittig Albert. I read her ages ago and remember lots of flowers and herbs as well as a murder. Good to pass the time.

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  8. Somehow I missed the original photo of Annie Liebowitz on the Chrysler building. What a fantastic image!
    All super images, but I like the Nebraska pioneer family best because their dog got the center position and it's wearing a coat for the cold winter snow!

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    1. That family really brings me back to consider it again and again. An itinerant photographer comes calling (still wintertime). But a warm enough day to sit in normal clothes, no hats and coats! And another 3 people in the background "photobombing?" with the horses. So everyone hold still for just this long! And there they are...with the warm dog too.

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  9. Great photographs and the quote is so appropriate in today's world and will probably be appropriate decades from now as well. Some things, unfortunately, never change.

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    1. Whitman is indeed a man for all ages. Thanks for comment today!

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