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Overalls Collection (#11)

From slapstick comedy to hard work, they have stood the test of time. Just like Laurel and Hardy, who brought laughter to millions with their iconic outfits

Background imageOveralls Collection: The nursery at Camp Ellen Marvin, Arden, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks

The nursery at Camp Ellen Marvin, Arden, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Interracial activities at Camp Ellen Marvin, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. The nursery. Arden, New York

Background imageOveralls Collection: Truck drivers for the Alaska Coal Company, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks

Truck drivers for the Alaska Coal Company, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Truck drivers for the Alaska Coal Company

Background imageOveralls Collection: Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brother s... near Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1939

Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brother s... near Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1939
Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brothers wife shown. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Rural shack community on outskirts of town

Background imageOveralls Collection: The children, seen in opening of tent in earlier photograph... near Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1939

The children, seen in opening of tent in earlier photograph... near Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1939
The children, seen in opening of tent in earlier photograph, before their new home. Rural shacktown. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939

California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp

Background imageOveralls Collection: Manager of mobile unit (FSA), on day camp opened... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Manager of mobile unit (FSA), on day camp opened... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Manager of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration) on day camp opened, in registration tent. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Possibly: Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting. Bonner County, Idaho]

Background imageOveralls Collection: Stump farmer prepares to blow out tamarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Stump farmer prepares to blow out tamarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stump farmer prepares to blow out tamarack stump. Shown tamping in dynamite in prepared hole. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shows stump on cut-over farm after blasting. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Shows method of pulling tomarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Shows method of pulling tomarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shows method of pulling tomarack stump. Drilling hole for dynamite with auger. Box holds powder, fuse caps, wire. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: On main street of potato town during harvest season, Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On main street of potato town during harvest season, Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On main street of potato town during harvest season. Merrill, Oregon. [Klamath potatoes for sale. Sgns: Stolt Lodge Spud Cellar ; Welards Soft Drinks on Tap ]

Background imageOveralls Collection: Non-farm migrants from Mississippi, came west in 1935, Gilchrist, Oregon, 1939

Non-farm migrants from Mississippi, came west in 1935, Gilchrist, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Non-farm migrants from Mississippi, came west in 1935. They have just applied for work in the Gilchrist lumber mill. Gilchrist, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Ex-Nebraska farmer now developing farm out of the stumps, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Ex-Nebraska farmer now developing farm out of the stumps, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Nebraska farmer now developing farm out of the stumps. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: The mother, father, and hardworking fifteen-year-old son in yard... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939

The mother, father, and hardworking fifteen-year-old son in yard... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939
The mother, father, and hardworking fifteen-year-old son in yard before the barn. Boundary County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: Farmer from Nebraska now developing eighty-acre stump farm, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Possibly: Farmer from Nebraska now developing eighty-acre stump farm, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939
[Untitled, possibly related to: Farmer from Nebraska now developing eighty-acre stump farm. Bonner County, Idaho]

Background imageOveralls Collection: Was Nebraska farmer, now developing land in cut-over area, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Was Nebraska farmer, now developing land in cut-over area, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Was Nebraska farmer, now developing land in cut-over area. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Ex-Nebraska farmer now a stump farmer, FSA Borrower, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Ex-Nebraska farmer now a stump farmer, FSA Borrower, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Nebraska farmer now a stump farmer. Bonner County, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower

Background imageOveralls Collection: This family came to the potato harvest after the... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

This family came to the potato harvest after the... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
This family came to the potato harvest after the Oregon hop harvest. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp unit. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Farmer preparing to blow tamarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farmer preparing to blow tamarack stump, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmer preparing to blow tamarack stump. It will take fourteen sticks of dynamite. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Stump farm family and their present home, Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Stump farm family and their present home, Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stump farm family and their present home. Boundary County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes... Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes... Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes to clear next year. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes to clear... Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes to clear... Bonner County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Nebraska farmer and the piece of land which he hopes to clear next year. Bonner County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Mennonite farmer, formerly wheat farmer in Kansas... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939

Mennonite farmer, formerly wheat farmer in Kansas... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mennonite farmer, formerly wheat farmer in Kansas, now developing stump ranch in Boundary County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: The Unruf family, Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The Unruf family, Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Unruf family. Boundary County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: Ex-mill worker clears eight-acre field after bulldozer... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939

Ex-mill worker clears eight-acre field after bulldozer... Boundary County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-mill worker clears eight-acre field after bulldozer has pulled the stumps. Boundary County, Idaho

Background imageOveralls Collection: In FSA migratory labor camp, Sinclair Ranch, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

In FSA migratory labor camp, Sinclair Ranch, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer

Background imageOveralls Collection: Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California

Background imageOveralls Collection: One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Row boss, formerly a pea picker, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Row boss, formerly a pea picker, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Row boss. Formerly a pea picker. Near Calipatria, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair... Near Calipatria, CA, 1939

Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair... Near Calipatria, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch newly planted to peas. California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Supper time in FSA migratory emergency camp... the pea fields, Calipatria, CA, 1939

Supper time in FSA migratory emergency camp... the pea fields, Calipatria, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Supper time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory emergency camp for workers in the pea fields. Calipatria, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Migratory labor workers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory labor workers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory labor workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Pea pickers waiting at FSA office for issue of surplus commodities, Calipatria, California, 1939

Pea pickers waiting at FSA office for issue of surplus commodities, Calipatria, California, 1939
Pea pickers waiting at Farm Security Administration (FSA) office for issue of surplus commodities. Calipatria, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Open air food factory - weighing in peas, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Open air food factory - weighing in peas, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Open air food factory. Weighing in peas. California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Drinking water for the whole town... Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939

Drinking water for the whole town... Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drinking water for the whole town, also for the migrant camp across the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: This family, like others in the area, raise strawberries... near Tenino, Washington

Possibly: This family, like others in the area, raise strawberries... near Tenino, Washington
[Untitled, possibly related to: This family, like others in the area, raise strawberries for commercial crop on their small clearings. Shown coming out of the field in the evening

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: Chris Ament, German-Russian dry land wheat farmer, who survived... Columbia Basin, 1939

Possibly: Chris Ament, German-Russian dry land wheat farmer, who survived... Columbia Basin, 1939
[Untitled, possibly related to: Chris Ament, German-Russian dry land wheat farmer, who survived in the Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, three miles south of Quincy.]

Background imageOveralls Collection: Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, dry land wheat farmers who survived... south of Quincy, Washington, 1939

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, dry land wheat farmers who survived... south of Quincy, Washington, 1939
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, dry land wheat farmers who survived in the Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, three miles south of Quincy

Background imageOveralls Collection: Migrant boy, family, live in growers camp for... near Grants pass, Josephine County, Oregon, 1939

Migrant boy, family, live in growers camp for... near Grants pass, Josephine County, Oregon, 1939
Oregon. Josephine County, near Grants pass. Migrant boy, family, live in growers camp for hop season

Background imageOveralls Collection: Young farm boy, near Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Young farm boy, near Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young farm boy. Younger brother trying to make a holster from the leather of an old coat. Oregon, Jackson County, near Medford

Background imageOveralls Collection: Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner, Polk County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner, Polk County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner. Polk County, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner, near Independence, Polk County, Oregon, 1939

Possibly: Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner, near Independence, Polk County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Hop picker, once Nebraska farm owner. Near Independence, Polk County, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Williamette Valley hop farmers in town hold their political forum on... Independence, Oregon, 1939

Williamette Valley hop farmers in town hold their political forum on... Independence, Oregon, 1939
Williamette Valley hop farmers in town hold their political forum on drug store corner. Independence, Oregon

Background imageOveralls Collection: Bean pickers child, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Bean pickers child, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Bean pickers child. Just arrived from near Joplin, Missouri. Question: " Why did you leave there?" Answer: " We couldn t make it."

Background imageOveralls Collection: Washington, Buena, Yakima County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Washington, Buena, Yakima County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Buena, Yakima County. Yakima Valley small town. A county which ranks fifth in the United States in value of agricultural production

Background imageOveralls Collection: Possibly: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Possibly: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. " Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn t to do it. It ain t fair in no way

Background imageOveralls Collection: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. " Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn t to do it. It ain t fair in no way

Background imageOveralls Collection: Chris Adolf, his team, and... children on their new farm, Washington, Yakima Valley, 1939

Chris Adolf, his team, and... children on their new farm, Washington, Yakima Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Chris Adolf, his team, and six of his children on their new farm. Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato




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From slapstick comedy to hard work, they have stood the test of time. Just like Laurel and Hardy, who brought laughter to millions with their iconic outfits. Whether it's Stan Laurel (left) or Oliver Hardy, these two comedic geniuses knew how to rock a pair of overalls. But overalls aren't just for the silver screen. In Muriel Dawson's painting 'The Days Work, ' blacksmiths can be seen outside their forge donning these practical garments. It's a testament to their durability and functionality in demanding professions. Even on the race track, overalls make an appearance. The 1962 Belgian GP saw drivers suited up in this timeless attire as they revved up their engines for an adrenaline-fueled competition. During World War II, AFS women training in Highgate, London wore overalls as they prepared themselves for crucial roles on the home front. These brave women exemplified strength and resilience while clad in this essential uniform. It also found their place in everyday life at places like Smithfield Market or Lodsworth Women's Institute jam making sessions in August 1943. They were worn by workers who dedicated themselves to providing goods and nourishment for communities during challenging times. In Haverfordwest, South Wales, Llewellin Churn Works witnessed skilled craftsmen wearing overalls as they meticulously crafted churns that would stand the test of time. Their dedication and attention to detail ensured quality products made with care. And let's not forget those young men sorting through piles of scrap metal – even amidst dirty work; they recognized the value of sturdy clothing that could withstand any challenge thrown at them. Lastly, we cannot overlook the Calthorpe Racing Car adorned with advertisements featuring individuals proudly sporting their trusty overalls – a symbol of speed combined with reliability on wheels. Whether it was laughter-inducing comedy acts or hardworking individuals going about their daily tasks, they have been a constant companion throughout history.