1952. «Lucille Ball and daughter Lucie Arnaz nestling together at home.» Happy Mother’s Day from Shorpy! Color transparency by Charlotte Brooks for the article «The Real Lucy» in Look magazine

The first slide from a batch of about 200 Kodachromes I got on eBay last week. I’m naming this collection after Linda, the young lady who features in many of them. This particular unlabeled slide shows Linda and (I guess) her mother around 1948. Linda’s family seems to hail from New England.

«Destitute pea pickers living in tent in migrant camp. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two.» Nipomo, California. February 1936. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

July 1942. Woman and her daughter in the Frederick Douglass housing project in the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C.

January 1939. «Negro sharecropper mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home. Transylvania, Louisiana.» Medium-format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration.

On the road with her family one month from South Dakota. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, Calif. September 1939.

June 1939. «Wife and baby of itinerant cane furniture maker and agricultural day laborer camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.» 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

March 1936. «Mother and baby of family of nine living in field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee River.» 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration.