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.

1. Tenant farmer with mule, Plaquemines, Louisiana
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2. White dutch clover, St. Charles Parish, June 1936
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Maybe he was going to make a daisy chain?
3. Rice farmer near Crowley, Louisiana
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When life was simple.
4. Front yard of an Orange grower in Boothville, LA, Plaquemines Parish
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This is what the farm house used to look like.
5. Pigeon cote on plantation barn near New Orleans, Louisiana
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6. Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team.
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This is a step above the primitive method. Near Shreveport, Louisiana June 1937
7. Unloading oysters from fisherman's boat, Olga, Louisiana
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8. Latest method of transporting rice from the field to thresher, near Crowley, Louisiana.
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9. Sugarcane worker, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
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10. Old barn in Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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11. Oyster fishermen, Olga, Louisiana
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I would love to have dinner with this man.
12. Threshing white dutch clover at farm, St. Charles Parish
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13. Water boy along Bayou Teche, near Jeanerette, Louisiana; rice fields
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The old time version of a water cooler.
14. Bags of threshed rice in the foreground, with loading operations in middleground, Crowley, Louisiana
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15. Strawberry picker, Hammond, LA
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Reminds me of Marc Twain.

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