Large Czech Family
This photograph of a rural family in Czechoslovakia shows the differences that were coming to distinguish urban from rural people. Although even members of a farm family, especially in eastern Europe, might proudly display technology such as a new phonograph, they might not practice family limitation, which was gradually reducing the size of urban households. In eastern Europe, several generations lived together more commonly in rural areas than in cities. How many generations do you see in this image? (© Scheufler Collection / Corbis.)