Arthur Rothstein, July 1942. "U.S. Rural Electrification Services. Miscellaneous scenes in Dunklin County, Missouri. Kennett, seat of Dunklin County, at election time. Courthouse square."
Elsewhere in Missouri, as the great Rural Electrification scheme rolls out…
July 1942. "Dunklin County, Missouri. Daughters of a U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative member using electric appliances in their farm kitchen."
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) lineman examining transformers of a substation."
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration cooperative lineman."
[Photos: Shorpy/Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information]
Mick Hartley 
Leave a comment