🌕 🍂 Harvest Moon 🍂 🌕

The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox so called because because the extra, bright moonlight in the early evening provided a crucial extended work period for farmers to finish harvesting their crops before the first frost

Hired Hand, Grundy County, lowa, 1939. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein

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🍂 First Day of Fall 🍂

Hired Hand with Corn used in Test for Yield, Fred Ukro Farm, Grundy County, Iowa, 1939. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein 🌽

Arthur Rothstein documented American life in his photographs believing that documentary photography was a tool for social change.

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