Well Project, Saint Mary's County

This appears to have been a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency. Photos by John Collier.

 A Ridge project family and neighbors made a real holiday of the 

installation of the new well. Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

  

Children are always watching and waiting. Ridge well project, 

Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

 

Fourth generation from slavery. Grandfather Briscoe's 

great grandchildren. Near Ridge, Maryland. Saint Mary's County, July 1941

 

Front porch. No one dares sit out here anymore. John Briscoe farmhouse 

near Ridge, Maryland. Saint Mary's County, July 1941

 

Little John Fredrick stands on the outside "where the flies ain't so bad." 

John Fredrick's privy, Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

 

The Fredrick womenfolk shell snap beans. 

Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

 

Two supervisors and borrower talk over the home problem. 

Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

  

Washing clothes near the old well. Ridge well project, 

Saint Mary's County, Maryland, July 1941

 

Witching for water with a peach limb. Safe well demonstration, 

Ridge, Maryland, Saint Mary's County, July 1941

John Collier

Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, San Francisco, 

Monday morning, December 8, 1941, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  

One man tin can band during blackout. 

San Francisco, California, December 1941

 

Picnic party from the mill towns enjoys the autumn foliage along 

the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts. State-owned park, October 1941

 

USO (United Service Organizations) servicemen's club. 

Civic Center, San Francisco, California, December 1941

 

Washington, D.C. Sewing room in the self-help exchange, January 1942

John Collier

 Children crowded up on the feet of "Hail to the Sunrise" bronze Indian 

to have their pictures taken. Mohawk Trail, Massachusetts, October 1941

  

 Christmas in a Washington home, December 1941

  

 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Amish women 

attending farm auction, March 1942

  

 New York, New York. Ice skating in Rockefeller Center, December 1941

  

Serving dinner aboard American airliner from 

Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, December 1941

John Collier

After school. Amsterdam, New York, October 1941

  

Hot Shoppe restaurant at midnight. Washington, DC, December 1941

  

 USO (United Service Organizations) servicemen's club. 

Civic Center, San Francisco, California, December 1941

  

Washington Hot Shoppe restaurants. Washington, DC, December 1941

  

White Tavern hamburger stand was the popular place in Amsterdam, New York, October 1941

John Collier

 Garden of the Pan American Building, Washington, DC, May 1943

  

 Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, DC, May 1943

  

 Steps of the Pan American Building, Washington, DC, May 1943

  

 General store, Chacon, New Mexico, Spring 1943

  

 Looking north from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 

above Penasco, New Mexico, January 1943

  

Village of La Alama, near Questa, New Mexico, Spring 1943

John Collier

Question: why are some of my black-and-white photos being "sepia-ized" when I upload them into Blogger? I've been noticing this for a few days now.

 Questa, New Mexico. A Spanish-American girl, a patient at the clinic 

operated by the Taos County cooperative health association. 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Bulletin board in the post office. 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Grade school children, 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Grade school children, 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Grade school. 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Mary Lennard, a Red Cross nurse from the clinic operated 

by the Taos County cooperative health association, making a home call. 1943

  

 Questa, New Mexico. Spanish-American girl who is in the first grade in school. 1943

  

 Spinning and weaving go on until a rug is finished. Navajo Reservation, 1948

  

 Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico, 1943

  

Waiting to apply for work on the FSA farm labor camps, Summersville, West Virginia, 1942

John Collier

 Natani family, near Ganado, Arizona 1948

  

 Navajo family, Arizona, 1948

  

 Navajo girl handspinning, near Ganado, Arizona, 1948

  

 Navajo girls learn first to weave by observation. Near Navajo Mountain, Utah, 1948

  

 Navajo man plowing land near White House Ruins. 

Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1948

  

 Navajo Mountain School, Arizona, 1948

  

 On the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese trawler. Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942

  

 Picking berries on the Gagnon family farm, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine 1942

  

 Polish immigrant husking corn, near Greenfield, Connecticut, 1941

  

 Portuguese dory fisherman and his grandaughter, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942

  

Portuguese dory fishermen gossiping in the sun, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942