Living FDR's dream: January 1939. "Herrin, Illinois. Family on relief living in shanty at city dump." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.
+~+~ Vintage Photograph ~+~+ Man during The Depression.
PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY
Boy standing on washtub and drinking by kitchen sink. Kentucky, 1964. By William Gedney
The Odd Couple – GM & Medicare
Tenant farmers, Marseilles, IL, 1937. Library of congress FSA/OWI photograph collection.
1935-1939 – Pictures Of The United States
During the early years of the Depression in the United States, over 250,000 children were homeless, and, in some areas, 90% were malnourished. (Indiana University Press)
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath