
Many of us feel a nostalgia for simpler times. But the buildings in this photo look spare and impoverished. Not to mention that pigs are smelly - and make rude noises :-)
[American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).