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Scenes From the Depression

 

 

 

Dust Bowl

This photo of the "dust bowl" in Oklahoma was one vivid example of the suffering of the Depression. Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration-1936.

Depression 1938

A family on the road in the Midwest, 1935. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.

Depression on the road

A family on the road, the hard way, heading toward Los Angeles. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.



     
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