Farms: Socializing, Traditions and Chores for Rural Farm Families in the 1940s

The 1940s brought a lot of change to rural Midwest farm families. Electrification, indoor plumbing, transportation and media technologies altered work and culture. In this segment from Iowa Public Television's documentary "The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos," original photography and first-person accounts tell the story of the traditions and chores of farm life in rural America before many of the changes of the twentieth century emerged. This segment from Iowa Public Television's documentary "The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos" features original photography and first-person accounts of farm life in rural America during the Great Depression and early twentieth century. http://www.iptv.org/iowastories/detail.cfm/wettach