15 Vintage Portraits of Farmers in Overalls - Modern Farmer

15 Vintage Portraits of Farmers in Overalls

A dive into the Library of Congress Archives to bring you 15 vintage photos of some hardworking farmers wearing this classically agrarian attire.

8a08648r [mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A farmer of Franklin County, Kansas, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

 

3c30912r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A couple of farmers drink beer together, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]

 

8a24880r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]An Arkansas farmer strikes a match on the button of his overalls, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

 

8a06404r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]An ozark farmer and his family, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

8a03304r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Mrs. Foster hanging up her husband’s overalls, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

8a03780r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Farmers at an auction, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

8a03276r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]The son of a North Carolina Tenant Farmer, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

8a12309r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Shelling corn, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

 

8b27586r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A farmer of Franklin County, Kansas, ca. 1936.[/mf_h5]

 

8b29462r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A young farmer enjoys a cigarette, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

8a07485r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A North Carolina sharecropper and tenant farmer, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]

 

8a16241r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Children of an Arkansas tenant farmer, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]

 

8a29381r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]A Mormon farmer in Utah, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

8a22120r[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota, ca. 1937.[/mf_h5]

 

8a12781r-1[mf_h5 align=”center” transform=”uppercase”]Farmers at an Iowa cornhusking contest, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

 

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