Haga....

Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Carousel....

Rua Garrett....

..1970´s

Rossio 1965....

 ..by Armando Serôdio

Dreamworld....

Lisboa, Rua do Ouro, 1977....

photo: F. Gonçalves

No pandemic and no e-commerce - and in those days one could buy almost anything in the Baixa district.

Rua do Carmo....

..1960. Photo by Armando Serôdio

Happy Christmas....

Mother of a family of nine living in a field on U.S. Route 70, near the Tennessee River. Photo taken in March 1936 by Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.

A reality still in many places around our globe. So many advances, but poverty and war, are still humanity`s eternal companions. It was like that in 1836, 1936 or 2019.... 

Rossio....

..due to the cars in the image, probably the late 1960`s. Photo by Artur Pastor

Rua do Ouro, 1959....

The Christmas illuminations in central Lisbon, mixed with lights from shops and neon signs, were something special many decades ago. Photo by Armando Serôdio

Happy Christmas....

Outside Paris in the mid 1960`s. Photo: Gérald Bloncourt

This photo of a Portuguese immigrant child is so much more than that moment....it is a child with curiosity and dreams that the future could be different. Everything is written on her face. A truly beautiful picture.

Jul Göteborg....

80 years passed....but for many nothing has changed

Christmas dinner in 1936 at the home of Earl Pauley near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consists of potatoes, cabbage and pie. Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. This was probably one of the better meals of the year....

Merry Christmas to you all !

Merry Christmas....

..primary school, Portugal around 1940

.."can they know it's Christmas time at all"

Christmas 1971....

click to enlarge

..at Praça do Marquês de Pombal. But that was a while ago.

December....

Rua do Carmo....

photo: Horácio Novais, 1959 (?)

Lisbon was special in terms of commerce during the 1960`s. The city lights from shops, neon and Christmas lights created a magic atmosphere and a heaven of colors. 

To you all....

Primary school in Portugal, around 1940. Photo by Bernard Hoffman 

..Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas....

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photo: Dorothea Lange, California, 1930`s