Days Gone By

Portrait of a family in Los Angeles, California, 1930.

Source: German Federal Archive

Dorothea Lange,Pea-Pickers Camp, Nipomo, California, February-March 1936.

Source: Library of Congress

Dorothea Lange, Establishment of rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California, 15 March 1935.

Source: Library of Congress

Dorothea Lange,On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relief because he once lived there, February 1939.

Source: Library of Congress

 Don Phillips, John Wayne Wright and Paul Bradley model new fall fashions for men, California, 20 May 1948.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Mono Lake Paiute basketmaker Carrie McGowan Bethel, ca. 1929.

Source: Yosemite Museum, National Park Service

Leonard McCombe, Babysitter Judy Fuss pretending to sleep while her charge is crying for attention, Los Angeles, California, April 1957.

Leonard McCombe, Marian Elliott, dog sitting four french poodles, Hollywood, California, April 1957.

Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, on a burro in Acton, California, 22 August 1891.

The Hollywood sign in disrepair, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1977.