The Reapers

July 1936. "Harvesting oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis." Medium-format nitrate negative
by Dorothea Lange.

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Vintage Photo

The Depression Era Photography of Dorothea Lange, This is Bob Lemmins, taken in Carrizo Springs in 1936 at about the age of eighty five. His is a story of those times. He arrived in Carrizo Springs with his then master and others during the American Civil War. He settled there in 1865, the same year Lincoln was shot and the civil war came to an end.

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Dorothea Lange was one of the best of the American photographers who used their art to document, and ultimately to alleviate, the human suffering caused by the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Vintage Photos

Country store on dirt road, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939.

Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Truck-load of cotton pickers, just pulled into town in the late afternoon.

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A look at the work of Dorothea Lange who captured the Great Depression through her lens and created some of the iconographic images of that era. A professional woman who took photographs for a living. The Great Depression of the 1930s is best remembered, photographically, by the work of the FSA, for which she worked. She traveled the USA recording the deprivations caused by the failure of the economy as well as taking many uplifting images that showed that, despite the hard times, life and love went on.