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.

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Wife of Ozark Mountains Farmer, Missouri

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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Russell Lee, a staff photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, took this photograph of a radiator cap in Laurel, Mississippi in November 1938.

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Caption with color slide: “Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio.” Photograph by John Vachon, 1942 or 1943.

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“Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky.”  Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

Photographed by Farm Security Administration staff photographer Marion Post Wolcott in July 1940.  The photo is of Wigwam City #2, Cave City, Kentucky.

“The Wigwam Motels, also known as the “Wigwam Villages”, is a motel chain in the United States in which the rooms are built in the form of teepees, hence the name “wigwam”. It originally had seven different locations: two locations in Kentucky, a location in Alabama, another location in Florida, one in Arizona, one in Louisiana, and another one in California. They are very distinctive historic landmarks. Two of the three surviving motels are located on historic U.S. Route 66, in Holbrook, Arizona and on the city boundary between Rialto and San Bernardino, California. Wigwam Motel #2, in Cave City, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1988 under the official designation of Wigwam Village #2.

“Wigwam village #2 was built in 1937 a few miles south of the original wigwam village #1, but on US-31W in Cave City. It was built consisting of 15 wigwams used as guest rooms and a much bigger concrete and steel central structure that originally served as a restaurant. The 15 wigwams are arranged in a semi circle around a common area with playground and recreation area. Each wigwam has a paved pad to accommodate one car.

The diameter at the base of each teepee is 14 feet (4.3 m), they are 32 feet (9.8 m) in height. Behind the main room of each unit is a small bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. In 2008, the rooms contain the original restored hickory furniture, cable TV and a window mounted air conditioner. There are no telephones to maintain the original atmosphere of the motel, though there is internet access. The restaurant is no longer in operation, but the motel is still open and welcoming guests.

“Wigwam village #2 is close to Mammoth Cave National Park … The motel is located on 601 North Dixie Hwy, Cave City, Kentucky. ” –   Wikipedia

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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Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs: Coca-Cola, Orange-Crush, Royal Crown, Double Cola, and Dr. Pepper.

This photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in August 1940.

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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass., December 1940.

This photo is by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano.

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Camping in the United States has, at times, been by necessity rather than recreational choice.

This tent is in a blueberry picker camp near Little Fork, Minnesota, August 1937.  It was photographed  by Russell Lee, staff photographer in a U.S. agency called the Resettlement Administration (in operation 1935 – 1937).

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General Merchandise, Coffins, & Caskets – Maynardville, Tennessee

This picture was taken in Maynardville, Tennessee by Ben Shahn in October 1935.

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

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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.

Newsboys admiring sporting goods, Jackson, Ohio – April 1936

From a photograph by FSA photographer Theodor Jung.

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

Images of the Great Depression 001

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,
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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)

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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

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Migrant

Found in photos of cherry pickers, Berrien County, Michigan

July 1940

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

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Coal miner, Kempton, West Virginia

1939 May

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

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

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