The Great Depression (colorized) photos of History...

[Freedomisneverfree]

I thought this was pretty cool. It shows the Great Depression and how it was back in history. The photos are colorized and I thought it was informative. I hope you enjoy...

 

[skye]

Thank you OP! ^^





December 1936: "Christmas dinner in home of Earl Pauley near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage and pie."

 

[pknopp]

I skip most videos posted here but this is cool. About half way through.

 

[skye]

Robstown, Texas

Schools did not open until the potatoes are harvested

 

[skye]

Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

 

[skye]

Cincinnati, Ohio

 

[skye]

Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts

 

[Votto]

The worst pictures looks better than Detroit today.

One thing I see in those pictures is people who still have hope, people who have dignity, something that is woefully lacking in today's poor America.

 

[skye]

 

[Vastator]

Crazy how colorization makes these folks so much more relateable

 

[skye]

not colorized but very moving.

 

[Vastator]

not colorized but very moving.


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Well, somehow she afforded glasses. I bought a pair last year, and it cost me $700 bucks! Wonder how she got hers....

 

[skye]

Well, somehow she afforded glasses. I bought a pair last year, and it cost me $700 bucks! Wonder how she got hers....

may be for free

In the Great Depression of the 30s and early 40s that much money was unthinkable. Food came first.

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

Well, somehow she afforded glasses. I bought a pair last year, and it cost me $700 bucks! Wonder how she got hers....

Mine cost $350 and nothing fancy. I have the no-line kind of glasses.

 

[skye]

Standing outside Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen, Chicago, IL, 1931

 

[Vastator]

Standing outside Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen, Chicago, IL, 1931

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Always struck me how well folks dressed back then despite the poverty...

 

[skye]

Always struck me how well folks dressed back then despite the poverty...

Ladies too but sadly that was not he norm during the Depression, it was only the exception.


Street smart, Washington, D.C., 1935

 

[skye]

Men on “Skid Row”, Modesto, California, March 1937.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I saw this promo on YouTube as well... BTW - the first photo you see is click bate.
OBVIOUSLY those two girls are faked... they didn't sculpt their eyebrows during the depression.

 

[skye]

LIFE magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White takes a photo from the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, New York City, 1934.