15 Vintage Farmers Market Shots

Just a friendly reminder from the Modern Farmer to attend your local farmers market tomorrow! Many farmers markets are starting up again, like the Indoor Spring Market in Hudson, NY, which began last weekend!

To get you inspired we gathered together a bundle of our favorite vintage farmers market shots from the Library of Congress. Enjoy!

A Mennonite apple farmer at a Farmer’s Market Lititz, Pennsylvania, ca. Nov 1942.

A chicken vendor rests her fowl on the bumper of a car at a Farmer’s Market in Weatherford, Texas, ca. May 1939.

An exchange between farmer and customer at the Farmer’s Market in Lititz, Pennsylvania, ca. November 1942.

A Mennonite farming couple sell their fowl at a Farmer’s Market in Lititz, Pennsylvania, ca. 1942

A vendor at the Farmer’s Market in Lititz, Pennsylvania, ca. November 1942.

Farmers unload their truck on market day in Montgomery County, Maryland, ca. 1942

A young vendor dusts off peaches for sale at the Farmers Market in Washington, D.C., ca. July 1942

A watermelon vendor at the Farmer’s Market in Washington, D.C., ca. July 1942.

Two women shell lima beans at the Farmer’s Market in Washington, D.C., ca. July 1942.

A couple prepares their vegetables for sale at the Farmer’s Market in Washington, D.C., ca. July 1942.

A watermelon vendor waits for sales at the Farmer’s Market in Washington, D.C., ca. July 1942.

A farmer takes a rest on a load of hay at the Farmer’s Market in Weatherford, Texas, ca. May 1939.

A cotton grower chats to other vendors at the Farmer’s Market in Weatherford, Texas, ca. May 1939.