Women's History, Union Work, Educational Ambitions, and More in a 1942 Photo: markstoneman.com

@markstoneman Quoth Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social this evening:

This is one of my favorite photographs, which I use in my Everyday Technologies class.

More photos of the Hall family here:
https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=%22pomp+hall

Pomp Hall was hailed in the CPUSA’s Party Organizer in 1937 as a Farmer’s Union organizer.

@markstoneman Thanks, this is awesome. Looks like a ’30s Remington portable. Back then something like this would have cost around $100 and been the equivalent adjusted for inflation of about $1,200, which for a tenant farmer would have been a huge outlay of money. I dug up some advertisements and did calculations for the late 1940s last year. Prized possession indeed.