The girl with the steer. Maybe we can't go home again, but you can sure see why we wish we could.

We just linked this in.

I'm doing son again.

Lex Anteinternet: The Steer. 1942.:  

The Steer. 1942.

 Annual agricultural show at the state experimental farm at Presque Isle, Maine. Prizewinning "baby beef", raised by a daughter of a Farm Security Administration client.

I don't know how old this woman is, but given that she's indicated to be the "daughter of a FSA client", my guess is that she's in her late teens.  Probably somewhere between 17 and 19..

Looks older, doesn't she?

She certainly looks more mature.

I hate to go down that "everybody was better" in the past road, as it simply isn't true.  But a lot about this photograph is really remarkable. A young woman, some would say girl, but she looks too mature for that, is posed with a serious animal.  She has a serious look on her face.

She's clean, turned out in a dress, and not bedecked with tattoos. Her hair no doubt isn't green, violet or pink.  She undoubtedly isn't having doubts about her gender or fascinated, like so many are today, about her own organs to the extent she basis her identity on satisfying them.

Some things, indeed, truly were a lot better in the past.