- Between 1935 and 1944, the federal government sent photographers across the country to document the nation during The Great Depression and to show the success of their programs
- Lange and John Collier captured dozens of haunting images showing the effects of The Great Depression in San Francisco, California during that time period
- A Yale University project called Photogrammar has organized the collection of more than 170K photos
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Sleeping on the streets in suits, long lines of men hunting for work and families relying on handouts to stay alive: Haunting images of The Great Depression in San Francisco
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