Old Man Reading Bible in Wicker Chair on Farmhouse Porch – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Old Man Reading Bible in Wicker Chair on Farmhouse Porch, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Old Man Reading Bible in Wicker Chair on Farmhouse Porch
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An elderly man sits in a wicker chair on a farmhouse porch, his attention fixed on an open Bible, in a scene that captures rural domestic life in the later 1920s. Images like this were often made by agricultural extension workers, whose job was to document farm households and spread information about modern methods, so the picture also reflects the broader federal effort to record the lives and surroundings of American farming families. The quiet pose and the plain porch furniture suggest a daily ritual of reading rather than a staged event. Its date range places it just before the economic hardships of the Great Depression reshaped rural life across the country.
| Created / published | c. 1925-1930 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | Photo by USDA Extension Service |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,882 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130312 |
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