These 20 Candid Photos Show What Life Was Like In North Carolina In the 1930s
The year 1930 was 93 years ago and some of you were here during that difficult decade when from Aug. 1929 until about Dec. of 1941 was the Great Depression, and 1939 brought in the brutal experiences of the Second World War when our friends and family members sacrificed so much. But time was also available for loving and catching some fun. Here is just a small look at life back then in these vintage 1930s pictures of North Carolina. Do you know anyone in these precious photos?
An Appalachian mountain farmhouse near Marshall, North Carolina, in 1936 shows the inside of this modest home.
Pictured front row left are: Roger C. Ragland; E. R. Walker Sr.; and A. S. Chappell. The back row includes B. D. Wilson; Lee A. Griggs; and E. R. Walker Jr.
People are also hard at work that same year on the 200 block of North Front Street in Wilmington.
And some of us worked on the sea, such as these herring fishermen on Chowan River, formed at the meeting of the Nottoway and Blackwater rivers near the North Carolina and Virginia border.
Wolcott worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting the cultural hardships and some fun too.
She snapped this 1939 picture of football fans who couldn't get in to the game as they sat outside in the parking lot and listened to the Duke University-North Carolina football game on the radio in Durham.
This postcard of the Pioneer Zephyr was taken in 1935 at Southern Pines, while the train was on a publicity trip from Camden, New Jersey to Columbia, South Carolina.
And sometimes magic happened, such as the time the professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey, visited Central Prison in 1939 at the request of a prisoner.
Like Wolcott, Dorothea Lange also worked for the Farm Security Administration and is best known for her Depression-era work, such as in the next two photos.
