Posts Tagged ‘America’
The Great Depression of the 1930s(9)
Selling apples, Jacksonville, Texas. October, 1939. Photographer: Russell Lee. Many tried apple-selling to avoid the shame of panhandling. In New York City, there were over 5,000 apple sellers on the street.
The Great Depression of the 1930s(8)
Power farming displaces tenants. Texas panhandle, 1938. Photographer: Dorothea Lange. Squatters in Mexican section in San Antonio, Texas. House was built of scrap material in vacant lot in Mexican section of San Antonio, Texas. March 1939. Photographer: Russell Lee.
The Great Depression of the 1930s（7）
Strike pickets, New York, New York. Dec. 1937. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein.
The Great Depression of the 1930s(6)
Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937.
The Great Depression of the 1930s(5)
People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. August 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.
The Great Depression of the 1930s(4)
Demonstration of unemployed, Columbus, Kansas. May 1936. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein.
The Great Depression of the 1930s(2)
Squatter’s Camp, Route 70, Arkansas, October, 1935. Photographer: Ben Shahn Philipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California, 1935. Photographer: Dorothea Lange. In order to maximize their ability to exploit farm workers, California employers recruited from China, Japan, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the American south, and Europe.
The Great Depression of the 30s(1)
We went through a severe finacial crisis in 2009, and it hasn’t recover well until this year. Somebody even forecast that the economic collapse will come soon. That largely may be a rumor away from the real. But it is clear that we indeed face a slump of economy. I can’t imagine how we live if the great depression happen, because it was really cruel in the 1930s of the great depression for people in America. Now I am going to present kind of life scenes through nine articles each of which contains five photos.
