Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico.

This photograph by Russell Lee, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in October 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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Wife of Ozark Mountains Farmer, Missouri

Shot by John Vachon, this picture was taken in May 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California.

The photograph was shot in June 1935 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency.

From the negative caption card, “Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Georgia sharecropper sorts tobacco.

Shot in July 1938 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency, this photo is from near Douglas, Georgia.

From the caption card for the negative, “ ‘You don’t have to worriate so much and you’ve got time to raise somp’n to eat.’  The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Mother and baby of family of nine living in field.

This photo is by Resettlement Administration staff photographer Walker Evans took this photo in March 1936 in a field on U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee, near Tennessee River between Camden and Bruceton. The family was living in the open field in a one-room hut built over the chassis of abandoned Ford truck.  Meals were cooked in a rudimentary, open lean-to near the hut.  The hut was “housing” provided by a landlord for an illiterate wood-cutter.

The family’s twelve-year old daughter is pictured in the lean-to at Eyes of the Great Depression 047 and Eyes of the Great Depression 036.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado

This photograph by Russell Lee, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in October 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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I’ve created a Pinterest pin board called Great Depression and have pinned all of the large images from my “Eyes of the Great Depression” series, as well as a few other Great Depression images I’ve posted.  At some point, I plan to return to the Eyes series and do some other posts related to the Great Depression.  There are many thousands of images from the period that are in the public domain.

Title: John Bunyan Locklear and family on porch of new home. Pembroke Farms, North Carolina
Date Created/Published: 1939.
photographer (likely) Marion Pos Wolcott,t, 1910-1990,
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000000660/PP/

Migrant Children

Berrien County, Michigan

July 1940

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a06764

Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon.

1939 Aug.

photographer: Dorothea Lange

Part of:  Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Repository:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b15572

Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio. Came to Carrizo Springs during the Civil War with white cattlemen seeking new range. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. Knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29794

Migrant

Found in photos of cherry pickers, Berrien County, Michigan

July 1940

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a06840

Coal miner, Kempton, West Virginia

1939 May

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a04095

Watching the parade go by. Cincinnati, Ohio

1938 Oct.

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03569

from Eyes of the Great Depression 048 – to be published October 1, 2010

Previously:

from Eyes of the Great Depression 048 – to be published October 1, 2010

Previously:

from Eyes of the Great Depression 048 – to be published October 1, 2010

Previously:

Twelve-year old girl of family of nine, cooking meal in rude, open lean-to near hut, Tennessee

1936 Mar

Carl Mydans, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01641

from Eyes of the Great Depression 048 – to be published October 1, 2010

Previously:

Washington, D.C. house where Lincoln died.

Title on original:  “Washington, D.C. house where Lincoln died. Negroes out front”

1937 Nov.

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a02991