Days Gone By

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

Source: German Federal Archive

Jack Delano, African-American migrant workers from Florida on their way to harvest potatoes in Cranbury, New Jersey, Shawboro, North Carolina, July 1940.

Source: Library of Congress 

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

A young American girl listening to the radio, 1936-1945.

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Children on a makeshift merry-go-round, ca. 1930s.

A one-room schoolhouse in Alabama, USA, 1935.

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Wagon loaded with squash, Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, ca. 1936.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Two hobos walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train, with one carrying a bindle, 1890s-1930s.

Source: Library of Congress