Zep Diner

The Zep Diner was located near a Goodyear tire plant and north of the blimp hangers in Carson, where Goodyear has anchored its West Coast blimp fleet since the late 1920s. posted by  Golden West

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Vintage Photo

This picture was taken on the porch of a general store near Jeanerette, Louisiana. It was taken in 1938 by Russell Lee. During the Great Depression, the government wanted to document the suffering going on across the country, and hired a group of photographers to travel the rural areas of the Nation, taking pictures of everyday people. 

Vintage Photos

Destitute: Children sitting on the steps of a dilapidated house in Michigan in June of 1937

Down-and-out: Mother and father and several children of a family of nine living in open field in rough board covering built on old Ford chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Bruceton and Camden, Tennessee

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Vintage Photo

Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA labor camp, Robston, Texas (January 1942)

Source: businessinsider | Library of Congress

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.

Source: encyclopedia

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.

Source: wikimedia.

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.

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their gang was known as the "Barrow Gang" which included Bonnie and Clyde, and at times Buck Barrow, Blanche Barrow, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Joe Palmer, Ralph Fults, and Henry Methvin.

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History

During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, at the height of the Great Depression, African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, line up seeking food and clothing from a relief station, in front of a billboard ironically proclaiming, "World's Highest Standard of Living." - vintage

Source: life.time