AA-2026-872B7D
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Sometime in the 1950s, after a serious northeastern winter storm had finished making its point, a woman in a dark wool coat picked her way along a road that had been plowed just enough to make travel theoretically possible and practically unpleasant. The houses behind her — a yellow clapboard bungalow, a white colonial with a broad porch — are the standard-issue New England residential stock of a small town that had been looking more or less exactly like this since 1920 and saw no reason to change. A car or two sit banked in snow along the left, as useful as furniture. The utility poles running down the street carried the electrical and telephone lines that in the 1950s represented the full extent of what a town owed its residents in the way of modern infrastructure, and everyone considered the arrangement perfectly adequate. She is the only person moving in the entire scene, which suggests either that everyone else had the good sense to stay inside or that she lost an argument.
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Small-Town New England Street After Heavy Snowfall, 1950s Winter. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-872B7D. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/small-town-new-england-street-after-heavy-snowfall-1950s-winter.
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title = {Small-Town New England Street After Heavy Snowfall, 1950s Winter},
year = {1950–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-872B7D},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/small-town-new-england-street-after-heavy-snowfall-1950s-winter}
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