Perhaps everyone has already seen this already, but I’m on hour twenty-something digging through these photos and wanted to share on the off-chance someone hasn’t yet.. The photos are from the Library of Congress and were taken during the Great Depression and World War II and are organized via Photogrammer by location. I’m loving the format of searching by State. See them all, here..
Williams, Arizona. A fireman watching a diesel freight train as it goes around a curve in the mountains on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
– Photographer Jack Delano -March 1943 – Williams, Coconino, Arizona/LOC via Yale
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum- Photographer
Dorothea Lange –
February 1936 –
El Monte, Los Angeles, California/LOC via Yale
Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. The gymnasium is one of the busiest places at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. The physical education program is handled by many noted exponents of boxing, wrestling, track and judo. Paul (Tiny) Wyatt, one-time leading contender for heavyweight boxing honors, is shown sparring with Hart Kraeten, former Golden Gloves champ
Photographer
Roger Smith
– January 1943 –
Manhattan Beach, Kings, New York – LOC/via Yale
New York City. Post office, Lower East Side –
Dorothea Lange –
June 1936 – LOC/via Yale
Strike pickets, New York, New York –
Arthur Rothstein –
December 1937 – LOC/via Yale
New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Apartment houses from the rear –
Walker Evans –
1938 – LOC/via Yale
Grand Central Terminal, New York City –
John Collier –
October 1941 – LOC/via Yale
