Thursday, August 17, 2017

Mrs. Leonard Gagnon at Work on Maine Farm 1942



Mrs. Leonard Gagnon at stove near Fort Kent, Maine. Photographer: John Collier. August 1942. FSA - Library of Congress.



Making soup.



Mrs. Leonard Gagnon making buckwheat pancakes 1942.



Wife of Albert Leonard Gagnon, Acadian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, spinning domestic wool for knitting near Fort Kent, Maine.



Mrs. [Leonard] Gagnon making butter

Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.