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This Is My Country: An Epic Survey, Rendered In Photographs, Home Movies, Audio Recordings, And Other Assorted Ephemera, Of Everyday Life In These United States And Of The Ways And Customs Of The American People c.1900-c.1976 (A Work In Progress)

 

Table of Contents

 

Note: A few shows contain images which may be considered disturbing, offensive, or inappropriate for the workplace. These have been marked with a red V (for Violence), N (for Nudity), and S (for strong sexual content)

 

Book I: The Old World (1900-1946)

The Aeronauts Dream, How the West Should Have been Won, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, The Frogman of Chicago, On Grandma's Porch, The Dance Lesson, The Girls of Summer, Dramatis Personae, My Days at Illinois, In Aurora, The Great War, A Letter, Great Northern, A Trip to the Shore, Lady Earl Stops for Milk, Queens of the World, Spring, Crying Holy unto the Lord, On A Darkling Plain (V), The Scavengers, A Trip to the Fair, A Bike Ride, The Kiss, G-Men, We're in the Army (and the Navy) Now, The Home Front, Our Lady of the Pacific, Once More unto the Breach (V) , The Soldier's Dream, The Voice of Your Man In Service, May 8th, 1945, V For Victory, What We Brought Home from the War (N&V)

 

Coming Very Soon!! Book II: On the Ways and Customs of the American People

While this section is currently under construction please enjoy the following excerpts (though please be aware they may not have functioning links back to this page or anywhere else for that matter)

African-American Photobooth & Small Studio Photographs, Smoke, Fire, Drink, Drunk, A Brief Reminder of an Unpleasant Reality, La Violence Américaine, Ambiguous Evidence: Heaven in a Shotgun Shell, Ambiguous Evidence II: Blood, Hair on Tractor, Scrap Girls (N), The Cooper's Dream, Lift & Carry, Up in the Old Hotel, The Dispatchers, Play Ball, The Gridiron, The Sweet Science, In the Bathroom (N), A Brief History of Laughter.

 

Coming Pretty Soon!! Book III: The Land and What We Put Upon It

While this section is currently under construction please enjoy the following excerpts (though please be aware they may not have functioning links back to this page or anywhere else for that matter)

The Ghosts of Vegetation, The Farmer's Dream, The Crop Duster's Dream, We Cast Our Dreams in Chrome and Steel, The Grid, At the End of the Mechanical Age

 

Coming Soon-ish!! Book IV: The New World(1947-1976)

While this section is currently under construction please enjoy the following excerpts (though please be aware they may not have functioning links back to this page or anywhere else for that matter)

Paul of Nazareth, Bakersfield by Night, To Ruben & Other Stories, The Road Barons, The In Crowd, Race, The Also-Rans, Here Am I, Your Special Island, Memorial Day, At the Ball, Down in the Basement, In the Neightborhood, 51% of Everything, The Promised Land.

Coming When I Get Around To It!! Epilogue: Of Being Numerous

(no excerpts available at this time)

 

Unless otherwise noted all material comes from my personal collection of photographs, films, etc....