Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
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Russell Lee (American, 1903-1986) “Roadside Stand near Greenfield, Massachusetts,” 1939. B&W film. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection LC-USF33-012448-M4    

Farmers Sell Pumpkins at Roadside Stands

Among the U.S. Farm Security Administration’s more famous photographs of migrant farm families, such as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," is a photographic series featuring New England roadside pumpkin stands. Roy Stryker, the head of the agency, advised the photographers, “Please watch for autumn pictures…These should be rather the symbol of Autumn...cornfields, pumpkins...Emphasize the idea of abundance—the ‘horn of plenty’ and pour maple syrup over it....”

 

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