Flat Tire

The family to which these younsters belonged had just arrived in Oregon from Kansas, hoping to get work harvesting potatoes. Other photos in the series show a flat tire being replaced on their trailer/wagon - thus providing Dorothea Lange with this photo opportunity.

Sept. 1939. [American Memory link]

Smokescreen

One spooky image. "Soldier of a cavalry rifle unit going through a smokescreen during a field problem" - at an army training base in Kansas.

Photo by Jack Delano, 1942. [American Memory link]