WPA poster by Erik Hans Krause, ca. 1936–39.
Source: Library of Congress PPOC, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98516190/.
Tag: Great Depression
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Shot in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, in 1934. Source: Library of Congress PPOC, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013647257/.
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Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: “Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don’t get it out, I’ve got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, maybe it will do it again.” Son: “It would be better if the sod had never been broke. My father’s broke plenty of it. Could I get a job in California?”
Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration, June 1938, via New York Public Library. -
“Migrant worker looking through back window of automobile near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma,” 1939, The New York Public Library.
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WPA Federal Art Project in New York City, ca. 1936/37. The play was based on a novel about fascism happening here.
Source: Library of Congress PPOC, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/92516051/.