Handwritten card in Proof Sheet Book reads: "Some of this is applicable to all such colonies (FSA) file] Amish colony - Arthur Illinois (Surrounded by tractor farmers) Beards, costumes, young & old Buggies (Roads & Road signs) - good horses Farms - no curtains, no rugs, shutters Town of Arthur, influenced by distance of horse travel, developed Saturday afternoon - no nonsense? They buy what they need- local prejudice - from "white man" see newspaper owner "They don't spend money like a white man" "If you've seen one - you've seen all" no telephones, no insurance, no electricity, no cars, no radio "Dumb as an ox" Anti-War "Now the boys are rushing back to the church" - no WPa. The Merchants do well Resistance of small town to tractor, highway, automobile Educated through grade school only - "They learn to count till they can cheat you" grave girls, silent boys Note in Proof Sheet Binder reads: 41071-94: Amana Society, August 1941 - Guggenheim Fellowship See "Notes From The Field" - P.S. Taylor