Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign #8
Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children. On U.S. 99. Near Famosa, Kern County, California. Nov, 19391
A rather ironic photo by Dorothea Lange juxtaposes the extreme poverty of migrant workers with the relative luxury offered by passenger trains of the 1930s.
- Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/fsa2000004591/PP/. (Accessed October 16, 2016.)
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Hi Mike – yes it is a rather perverse image – tells the story though …
Cheers Hilary
Interestingly, passenger train service has almost disappeared in most of the United States. The last time I was on a train with regularly scheduled service, excluding subways and tourist excursion trains, was in the mid 70s between Greenock and Glasgow, Scotland.