Take a look back at Depression-era D-FW through recently released photographs

Update October 8:

The Internet works in miraculous ways: the badass real-life Rosie the Riveter below has been identified.

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation... — Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth in October 1942.(Howard R. Hollem)

She is Mary Baldwin of Fort Worth. Her son, Tim was sent this post and sent us an email with a few more details about her life.

She is 93 years old and lives in a retirement community in Fort Worth. Tim wrote that he knew she was working in Fort Worth doing various things including the USO during WWII, but was unaware she worked for the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation until seeing his mother's photograph in this post.

Mary was married to Don Baldwin, who was originally from Ohio but stationed in Fort Worth during the war. That's where he met Mary. Don had a long career at General Dynamics (now known as Lockheed Martin), the successor to the Consolidated Aircraft plant at which Mary was photographed. He died in 2009.

Tim now lives in Denver, but will be visiting his mother in Fort Worth soon with photos in tow.

Tim was kind enough to share with us a couple of additional photos of Mary from the same time as the FSA photograph — she's even rocking the same ribbon in one:

Mary Baldwin of Fort Worth is one of the real-life Rosie the Riveters photographed in 1942... — Mary Baldwin of Fort Worth is one of the real-life Rosie the Riveters photographed in 1942 by the FSA.(Contributed by Tim Baldwin)

Original post:

Nothing is more Americana than Depression-era photographs. Hipsters aspire to have their beard and flannel game as on point as farmers did in the 1930s.

Thanks to Yale University, you can check yourself against 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1944 by photographers working for the Farm Security Administration — Office of War Information. The FSA was created in 1937 as part of the New Deal to combat poverty in rural America.

The FSA photography program calls Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee and Gordon Parks alumni.

Lucky for us, 78 of the photographs published on Yale's Photogrammer are from Dallas county and 165 are from Tarrant County including some photos of badass real-life Rosie the Riveters. (They have raised the bar for my #squadgoals forever.)

Take a look into Texas' past:

Downtown Dallas

State Fair of Texas, 1939

The Dallas Morning News

There is of course still a dead-tree edition of The Dallas Morning News in 2015, but the production of it today doesn't look near as romantic as it does in these photographs from 1943.