Thanks for sharing, Cardinal...fascinating looks at life, back then. Most of the pix seem to be taken before WW....a lot of those families had to be impacted with their men being drafted.
I noticed that most of the adults wore hats, then. I was also impressed, seeing a group saying grace before a meal, and the men tipping their hats in respect.
Feedsack dresses were quite common, back then...I wore my share. They were in prints, so could look nice. I noticed how wrinkled some of the dresses looked, reminding me of a picture of me, in my teens, with a very wrinkled skirt. We did have irons, in those days, but cotton clothes were prone to wrinkling. Those were the days before polyester.
And, to iron, you had to heat your woodstove so that it got the iron hot enough to press your clothes. Even on the hottest days. Come to think of it, Mom had to use the woodstove to cook our meals, 365 days a year. (We lived in Minnesota, at the time.) There may have been some summer days that she served sandwiches and fruit, without firing up the stove, that day.
When I think back on it, now, I wonder how our mothers and grandmothers were able to can and bake bread on woodstoves, since our current gas and electric ranges can be more readily heat controlled. But, they managed.
