A spinning wheel in 1935 Arkansas. A new coat or blanket was no small thing when every part of the process needed to be undertaken by hand.
Photo by Arthur Rothstein. [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).