WOMEN OF NEW MEXICO: Depression Era Images...
WOMEN OF NEW MEXICO: Depression Era Images edited by Marta Weigle (Ancient City Press, P.O. Box 5401, Santa Fe, N.M. 87502: $17.95; 129 pp., paperback original). Weigle’s chronicle of rural life in the Southwest features black-and-white photographs taken by the Farm Security Administration, supplemented with verbal descriptions from the New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project/Program. The result is a vivid portrait of a vanished existence. Sequential images reveal how women made soap, baked bread in outdoor ovens, made adobe and plastered their homes. Yet only 55 years separate this New Mexico from the boutiques and golf courses of the modern state.
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