A dive into the Library of Congress Archives to bring you 15 vintage photos of some hardworking farmers wearing this classically agrarian attire.
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A farmer of Franklin County, Kansas, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A couple of farmers drink beer together, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]An Arkansas farmer strikes a match on the button of his overalls, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]An ozark farmer and his family, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Mrs. Foster hanging up her husband’s overalls, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Farmers at an auction, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]The son of a North Carolina Tenant Farmer, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Shelling corn, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A farmer of Franklin County, Kansas, ca. 1936.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A young farmer enjoys a cigarette, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A North Carolina sharecropper and tenant farmer, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Children of an Arkansas tenant farmer, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A Mormon farmer in Utah, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota, ca. 1937.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Farmers at an Iowa cornhusking contest, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]