Wow, it’s always so amazing to take a look back on history and reflect on life before. There is a simplicity and beauty in these photos that take my breath away. Rural life throughout history has been special in Louisiana.
- Tenant farmer with mule, Plaquemines, Louisiana
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- White dutch clover, St. Charles Parish, June 1936
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- Rice farmer near Crowley, Louisiana
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- Front yard of an Orange grower in Boothville, LA, Plaquemines Parish
Photogrammar.yale.edu This is what the farm house used to look like.
- Pigeon cote on plantation barn near New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team.
Photogrammar.yale.edu This is a step above the primitive method. Near Shreveport, Louisiana June 1937
- Unloading oysters from fisherman’s boat, Olga, Louisiana
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- Latest method of transporting rice from the field to thresher, near Crowley, Louisiana.
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- Sugarcane worker, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
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- Old barn in Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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- Oyster fishermen, Olga, Louisiana
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- Threshing white dutch clover at farm, St. Charles Parish
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- Water boy along Bayou Teche, near Jeanerette, Louisiana; rice fields
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- Bags of threshed rice in the foreground, with loading operations in middleground, Crowley, Louisiana
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- Strawberry picker, Hammond, LA
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What did you think of these photos of rural life in Louisiana? Did you have a favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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Maybe he was going to make a daisy chain?
When life was simple.
This is what the farm house used to look like.
This is a step above the primitive method. Near Shreveport, Louisiana June 1937
I would love to have dinner with this man.
The old time version of a water cooler.
Reminds me of Marc Twain.
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