Life on an Iowa Farm in the 1920's and 30's
Iowa Farm Wife
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Offered now, for the first time since they were uncovered, this photographic collection is a stunning display of authentic Americana. A chronicle of the heartland, in West-central Iowa from a century ago.
A glimpse back into the rear window of life, as you become transported visually to a time waaay before you were born. And probably befo
Offered now, for the first time since they were uncovered, this photographic collection is a stunning display of authentic Americana. A chronicle of the heartland, in West-central Iowa from a century ago.
A glimpse back into the rear window of life, as you become transported visually to a time waaay before you were born. And probably before your parents and their parents were born. If you’re a millennial, these are your great-grandparents, possibly great, great, grandparents. A really long time ago.
The Photographs of
The Photographs of
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Did I mention my grandma was a woman? Women did not often take up photography as a hobby in 1917 before WW I was over. A camera was a fairly rare possession, especially on an Iowa dirt farm, with farm animals, and four kids, a husband, and lots of blowing fine black dirt during the Dust bowl years. Laundry washed by hand and food grown b
Did I mention my grandma was a woman? Women did not often take up photography as a hobby in 1917 before WW I was over. A camera was a fairly rare possession, especially on an Iowa dirt farm, with farm animals, and four kids, a husband, and lots of blowing fine black dirt during the Dust bowl years. Laundry washed by hand and food grown by hand.
This collection of photographs reveals a different time and place a hundred or more years ago. Life was hard on a working farm in those days and it is a tribute to Anna Monthei for documenting these times so well.
Anna Cox Monthei
The Photographs of
Anna Cox Monthei
Take a trip through time with this beautiful coffee table edition of Iowa Farm Wife, the amazing photographs of a hardy second-generation English immigrant woman. Born in 1890, she married a second-generation German immigrant farmer. Here is her story in photographs. It is a unique perspective of life lived out on the Iowa prairie between
Take a trip through time with this beautiful coffee table edition of Iowa Farm Wife, the amazing photographs of a hardy second-generation English immigrant woman. Born in 1890, she married a second-generation German immigrant farmer. Here is her story in photographs. It is a unique perspective of life lived out on the Iowa prairie between the two world wars, when life centered around the family, their neighbors and the support of a community committed to living their lives on their terms along the Lincoln highway, out in the vast farmland of west central Iowa.
