From the Great Depression to World War II - Photos from the American Memory Collection

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).

Mar 16, 2009

Fisherman's Sons

These sons of a Louisiana oyster fisherman were photographed in Sept. 1938. Other photos reveal that the younger one is barefoot.

Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]

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