When we think of America during the Great Depression, we often picture it in shades of grey. It was a grim era and nearly all of the photographs we see are in black and white.
This is one of Dorothea Lange’s most famous photographs - a destitute mother in a migrant farm worker camp in California. Lange was one of the many talented WPA photographers who recorded the history and conditions of the Depression across the United States.
Follow me below the fold as we look at America before Pearl Harbor.