My last trip to Kyiv was very short, just over a week, but I did sneak in a trip to the antique market on the other side of the river, every Saturday morning. I've been there enough that one dealer knows I'm looking for food and farming photos and always has a couple for me. The above is just a detail from the photo below. I was struck this time by how many photos I saw of women working together. In this, harvesting some kind of root crop--hard to tell exactly what. And of course, in 1959, this is on a collective farm.
In this undated photo, women are working outside, again together, this time peeling potatoes.
I particularly love this group, who look like they've paused for lunch, while harvesting or doing other outdoor work.
And in sharp contrast, our lone male in today's post, eating a meal at home. Any ideas of what his meal consists of?
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