Holy cow, the wife looks hardly 25 years old. They really popped kids out back to back in them days. I guess it's true you just believed in the Lord, had a bunch of young'uns, and hoped and prayed to Jesus Christ at least one of them made it to adulthood. Contrast that to the middle class lifestyle of many Americans just a little more than a decade later and it becomes even more of a mind-blower.

[–] LuckyBoy@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Thats not the wife, the wife probably is in the back of the older teenager girl that you think that is the wife. You can see a foot.

[–] neo@feddit.de 9 points 9 months ago

Two adults, four children, two dogs and they only carry a small suitcase and a bundle. Wild.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Remember that back then, we had far fewer vaccines, people got sick with terrible illnesses all the time. The Spanish flu had killed millions just a little less than 15 years prior. People also starved and died too. We didn't have the complex supply chains that could deliver fresh foods around the world, either. We are incredibly lucky these days. We really do take it for granted.

Smallpox, measles, polio, and other diseases were still in full swing.