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).

May 8, 2009

Spinach Fields

These empty baskets were filled with spinach harvested by migrant workers under the hot Texas sun. 1939.

Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]

TripodGirl at 6:00 AM

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