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Eyes of the Great Depression 012

February 12, 2009

eyes of the great depression

Eighty year old woman living in squatters’ camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. “If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you – all you’ve got to live with”

eyes of the great depression

1936 Nov.

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

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29843

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Michelle Gartner February 13, 2009 at 1:31 AM

Aww that’s a good one I have not seen, she looks like she has a lot of pluck and gumption.

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Mike February 13, 2009 at 6:50 PM

She sure does. She must have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations to end up in a squatters camp so late in her life.

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