{"id":19837,"date":"2021-02-03T03:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19837"},"modified":"2021-02-02T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T02:02:19","slug":"you-think-you-have-it-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/you-think-you-have-it-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"you think you have it tough &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19838\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lifes-Gallery-Oct.-16-1970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19838\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lifes-Gallery-Oct.-16-1970-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drudgery of poor women in America c 1914. Photo by William Barnhill via LIFE magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>. This photograph was taken in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\">Appalachia<\/a> way back in 1914 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_A._Barnhill\">William Barnhill<\/a>. It shows impoverished women forced to be household drudges and field hands, aging to old hags within a few short years of the heavy labour. To do mundane tasks like converting wool to clothing and linen, they worked with primitive manual machines.<\/p>\n<p>Barnhill did these photographs decades before the FSA undertook the investigation of poverty during the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12213\">dirty thirties<\/a>. It appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=Y1MEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Gallery<\/a> (pp8, 9) of the October 16, 1970 edition of LIFE magazine.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks once again to good friend George Dunbar for bringing this photograph to my attention while he continues to investigate various magazine representations pertinent to photographic history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. This photograph was taken in Appalachia way back in 1914 by William Barnhill. It shows impoverished women forced to be household drudges and field hands, aging to old hags within a few short years of the heavy labour. To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/you-think-you-have-it-tough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[3511,3509,425,102,495,3510,734],"class_list":["post-19837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-appalachia","tag-barnhill","tag-life","tag-magazine","tag-photograph","tag-poverty","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19841,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions\/19841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}