| By Kendall Holmes |
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Scenes from magazines ~~ Scenes from real life
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| During the 1930s and early 1940s, a group of U.S. government photographers fanned out across the nation to capture scenes of daily life -- especially those that would show how rural Americans were coping with the Great Depression.
The images they captured are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced.
Here are several showing kitchens from the era.
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 "Mrs. Haubeil in her kitchen of her home, Ross County, Ohio"
Arthur Rothstein, photographer.
February 1940.
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 "Mr. and Mrs. Andey Smith in the kitchen of their new home. Greenwood, Alabama"
Arthur Rothstein, photographer.
Februrary 1937.
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 "Sink, refrigerator and stove in the kitchen of the model house at Greendale, Wisconsin"
Russell Lee photographer.
March 1937
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 "Homesteader canning vegetables in her new kitchen. Austin Homesteads, Minnesota"
Paul Carter, photographer.
August 1936
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 "Interior of kitchen showing arrangement of facilities. Newport News Homesteads, Virginia"
Paul Carter, photographer.
September 1936
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 "Doing Dishes in a New Home in Greenbelt, Maryland"
Arthur Rothstein, photographer.
November 1936
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