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Shovel-Ready: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 6:24pm.
February 1937. Calipatria, California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks." Large format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
That has got to be...
Submitted by zzyzx on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 2:45am.
...one of the most haunting photos I've ever seen in my life.
Dorothea Lange
Submitted by crizzo on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 12:11am.
She was a real American genius for capturing unpretentious human expression.
She looks like one tough lady.
Submitted by Otis R. Needleman on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 9:52pm.
Hope things got better for her as time went on. Agree, these people were tough. But a lot of people these days have it pretty tough, and they're making it.
When Poor Was Really Poor
Submitted by wxman1 on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 7:28pm.
An unfortunate time that many today would find totally untenable, yet these folks somehow made it. Thankfully, most of their children thrived in the 50s and 60s. Like the old John Wayne movie, these people had "True Grit".
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