Shots of "The Good Life"

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Lucian Brown, Minneapolis, 1951

Joe Steinmetz, Sarasota, Florida, ca. 1950

"Mother's Day," Francis Sullivan, Derry, New Hampshire, 1959.

"Every father and every mother trembles lest an offspring, in act or thought, should be different from his fellows; and the smallest display of uniqueness in a child becomes the signal for the application of drastic measures aimed at stamping out that small fire of noncompliance by which personal distinctness is expressed."
**--Robert Lindner, Prescription for Rebellion, 1952**

Jean Raeburn, New York City, 1950

"Raymond Minstrel Show," Francis Sullivan, Derry, New Hampshire, 1955

Lucian Brown, Minneapolis, 1959

Jack Gould, St. Louis, ca. 1950.

"American capitalism is now in considerable part a military capitalism, and the most important relation of the big corporation to the state rests on the coincidence of interests between military and corporate needs...."

--C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, 1956

Joe Steinmetz, Sarasota, Florida, 1946

Orrion Barger, Chamberlain, South Dakota, undated

Francis Sullivan, Derry, New Hampshire, 1957

Jack Gould, St. Louis, 1954

"For the current American way of life is founded not just on motor transportation but on the religion of the motor car, and the sacrifices that people are prepared to make for this religion stand outside the realm of rational criticism."

--Lewis Mumford, "The Highway and the City,"
Architectural Record, 1958

Jack Gould, St. Louis, early 1950s

A further, tiny sample of the Carpenter Center's photographic riches may be found on the Internet at "https://www.fas.harvard.edu/~photocol/". Norfleet hopes someday to digitize and make available thousands of images for teaching, publication, and other purposes.

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