Jewel and Harold Walker

Jewel and Harold Walker, 1916 October 10,   6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Comanche County, Oklahoma, Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940, photographer.

Source: flickr | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,D.C. 20540 USA | Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 

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.