Niagara Falls, New York. 1940. There's something about the mood of this shot that grabs hold of me. Everything looks ancient and forsaken.Photo by Royden Dixon. [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).
Niagara Falls, New York. 1940. There's something about the mood of this shot that grabs hold of me. Everything looks ancient and forsaken.