Jimmy Carter Childhood Photos

[Donkees]

Jimmy Carter was born James Earl Carter, Jr. in October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia.



Future president Jimmy Carter as a baby with his mother(Lillian)







Jimmy and his sister Gloria in a portrait

[Haggard Celine]

1. Look how skinny his legs were in the last picture.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Not knowing who he turned out to be and how high he rose in life

what can you tell from those photos?

He could be any of us Americans. I see quality care - the hat, his mom's checkered dress - and I see determination in the last photo. Very competitive, yet transparently open to what he sees. Unstoppable.

[Donkees]

4. Excerpts: Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm

https://www.nps.gov/jica/planyourvisit/jimmy-carter-boyhood-farm.htm

Jimmy Carter was a businessman even as young as five years old when he sold boiled peanuts on the streets of Plains. He would earn about $1.00 per day gross income selling peanuts, and on Saturdays sometimes he could sell as much as five times that amount. He would get up early on Saturday morning and fill up his buckets with choice peanuts. They would be washed and boiled in salt water and then he would rush through the morning farm work. After breakfast Jimmy would walk the railroad tracks to Plains carrying the peanuts in two large baskets. When he got to Plains he sold the peanuts for a nickel a bag.

Caretakers of the Carter Children

The impact of the Carter family’s environment during childhood cannot be overestimated. The location, their family life, their relationships with neighbors, and this place in time each factored into the development of the Carter children. Their upbringing and the things that were important to them guided their formation as adults. Their childhood environment serves as an example of the past guiding the future.

"My life on the farm during the Great Depression more nearly resembled farm life of fully 2,0000 years ago than farm life today.I have reflected on it often since that time; social eras change at their own curious pace, depending on geography and technology and a host of other factors. It is incredible with what speed those changes have totally transformed both the farming methods and the very life-style I knew in my boyhood."
Jimmy Carter, 1975

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Thanks for taking time to add that insight

Most applicable, and most appreciated!

[Yorkie Mom]

11. Thank you!

I have so much respect for this man.

[malaise]

3. Adorable

Thanks😀

[Judi Lynn]

6. Remarkable person looking out of those child's eyes. Unusual intensity. Thank you for sharing. ⭐️

[Quakerfriend]

7. And, his eyes reflect the decency and

kindness we all came to know in the man.

[Judi Lynn]

8. You're so right. They seem far more aware, concerned than ordinary.

[japple]

9. Love the old pictures. Here is a beauty from today's WAPO from the Peanut Festival

and Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday celebration in Plains. Such sweet pictures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440&impolicy=high_res

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440&impolicy=high_res

Link to article (no paywall): https://wapo.st/3LE01HK

Now, Carter has good and bad days and his health can vary by the moment, his relatives said. His body shows his age. He is frustrated that he cannot swim anymore and he needs a wheelchair to get around.

“He told me has been successful at everything in life, but he can’t figure out how to die,” Chip Carter said.

[Emile]

10. The last picture looks like him. The first pic

shows a happy baby.

Thanks for sharing.

[CatWoman]

12. K; R