As automakers slide into bankruptcy, in Michigan rain is a blessing, a curse - and a metaphor.
Taken in July 1942 by Arthur S. Siegel. [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).