Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One of Chris Adolph’s younger children (Lois). Farm Security Administration Rehabilitation clients; photo by Dorothea Lange, August 1939. (audio interviews: Darrel Coble & Lois Houle; Lois Houle on “Relief”)
Library of Congress image.
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She's just a child, but her eyes look OLD.
Such a sad photo.
In the first picture the eyes look like a much older woman- it's amazing to open the fold and see that she is in fact a child. In a lot of literature and things I have read from the Depression era- that was actually a distinguishing trait of those who lived through the Depression. "old eyes" and on children no less.
That barbed wire seems symbolic of something holding her back too.
I just keep thinking of the "Grapes of Wrath".
Thanks, everyone, for dropping by and commenting.
Friar, my inspiration for this series was, in part, "The Grapes of Wrath," which I finished reading completely for the first time last month.
More to come.