calivintage: borninflames: And a 1937 photo by the most famous FSA photographer, Dorothea Lange (you will surely have seen her “Migrant Mother”). Original caption: “A mother in California who, with her husband and two children, will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration.” Image from Library of Congress. Go here for more info on the Farm Security Administration’s photo project which documented rural poverty from 1935-1944, an incredible document of this country from the Depression to WWII.

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borninflames:

And a 1937 photo by the most famous FSA photographer, Dorothea Lange (you will surely have seen her “Migrant Mother”). Original caption:

“A mother in California who, with her husband and two children, will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration.”

Image from Library of Congress. Go here for more info on the Farm Security Administration’s photo project which documented rural poverty from 1935-1944, an incredible document of this country from the Depression to WWII.

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    i remember falling in love with these photos in 8th grade when i was shown them for the first time
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