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

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South Dakota drought refugees in Montana

 

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A workers shack on the edge of a pea field, they have come west to escape the dustbowl

 

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A workers shack on the edge of a pea field, they have come west to escape the dustbowl

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Note the kid peeking out the doorway...

 

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Note the beautiful newborn baby in his arms....

 

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Migratory laborer's wife in 1938 Near Childress, Texas

 

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Migratory laborer's wife in 1938 Near Childress, Texas


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She looks like she's starving to death...

 

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She looks like she's starving to death...

Yes, she does.

It was a time of misery.

 

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New York Soup Kitchen, 1931

 

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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.

Someone should capture those images before Dems want to shove them down the memory hole.

 

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A family travels toward California in search of work after their life in Missouri was devastated by drought.

Tracy, California. February 1937.

 

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A young boy shows off a bike he bought with his own money.

Michigan Hill, Washington. August 1939.

 

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Beautiful children still with hope in their hearts.....


School children singing.

Pie Town, New Mexico.

 

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A young boy shows off a bike he bought with his own money.

Michigan Hill, Washington. August 1939.


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What are those things on the boys legs?

 

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What are those things on the boys legs?

I have no idea! may be some sort of protection for working in the fields or old trousers under the ones he is wearing...hard to tell

 

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Anton Weber, a resettled farmer, Tompkins County, New York, September 1937

 

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Son of a woodcutter, Eden Mills, Vermont, August 1936

 

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A family travels toward California in search of work after their life in Missouri was devastated by drought.

Tracy, California. February 1937.


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Look at that beautiful knitted sweater and cap on the baby

 

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1930s Street scenes New York