Over the course of his career as a Farm Security Administration supervisor and, later, a freelance photographer, A. M. "Pete" Wettach (1901–1976) took thousands of pictures of friends, neighbors, family members, and clients throughout the Midwest. A sampling of his brilliant portraits of twentieth-century farm life was captured for the first time in A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925–1965 (Iowa 2002), which garnered instant regional and national acclaim.
Among Pete Wettach’s most captivating images are those of farm children. His photographs capture them in their everyday environment, going about their work or their play. With an affectionate eye, Wettach documented the participation of children in the annual cycle of farm life, from planting through harvest.
Children on the Farm contains thirty of Wettach’s best black-and-white images of midwestern farm children, printed on high-quality, perforated postcards. Like its companion From the Heartland, Children on the Farm is a vivid reminder of a bygone era, and its postcards will delight all who are lucky enough to receive them.
