Some of Dorothea Lange’s 1930s photos for the Farm Security Administration have featured recently at Shorpy’s Vintage Photos. Here are two:

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4 responses to “From the Great Depression”

  1. SnoopyTheGoon Avatar

    What can I say? Wow…

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  2. dearieme Avatar
    dearieme

    I suppose that the first might not be posed.

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  3. DaninVan Avatar
    DaninVan

    “I suppose that the first might not be posed.”
    That’s a hell of a lot of work to go to to make a bldg. look decrepit…;)

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  4. DaninVan Avatar
    DaninVan

    The young woman is likely dead of old age or is at least in her 90’s.
    One can’t help but hope that life improved for her, even knowing that her husband would in all probability have been off to war in a few years.
    That pics just too close to home vis-a-vis my late mother.

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