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.
Color presents an entirely different image. Go here to see numerous color photos taken during the Great Depression. It’ll take a couple of minutes to read the captions and view all of the photos, but it’s worth it for nostalgia nuts like me.
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.
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