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I really like how the dogs are counted as family members :)
There’s someone behind the mother, I assume possibly carrying a baby. (Look closely at mom’s feet and you can see theirs.)
Edit: That’s assuming that’s the mother, and not whoever is behind her. She does look pretty young.
You’re right, I completely missed that person!
Fucking pathetic then and it’s fucking pathetic now. Some of those shanty towns were real fuckin nice compared to our tent cities.
Fucking pathetic, we could do better but instead humanity would rather be a selfish cunt
The photographer was Dorothea Lange.
In early 1935, […] Lange began to work for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. That summer, the agency was transferred to the RA, which had recently begun a photodocumentary project to draw attention to the plight of the rural poor. (In 1937, the RA would become the Farm Security Administration, or FSA.) Lange worked for the FSA periodically between 1935 and 1939, primarily traveling around California, the Southwest, and the South to document the hardships of migrant farmers who had been driven west by the twin devastations of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
She’s the photographer who took the “Migrant Mother” series, some of the most iconic images of the Depression.
Holy cow, the wife looks hardly 25 years old. They really popped kids out back to back in them days. I guess it’s true you just believed in the Lord, had a bunch of young’uns, and hoped and prayed to Jesus Christ at least one of them made it to adulthood. Contrast that to the middle class lifestyle of many Americans just a little more than a decade later and it becomes even more of a mind-blower.
Two adults, four children, two dogs and they only carry a small suitcase and a bundle. Wild.
Thats not the wife, the wife probably is in the back of the older teenager girl that you think that is the wife. You can see a foot.
And right wingers would call them freeloaders and tell them to get a job
They had nowhere to go, how are they going to get a job and there are many other factors why someone cannot work
Also fuck capitalism, we should be free to live our lives and not be slaves to the capitalist system
You are free to live you life. Are there armed guards preventing you entering the forest and living off birds you kill with your hands and sleeping on pine needles? Be my guest.
Or do you mean “we should be free to have farmers work for my food, and have 20 people come build me a house, all for free”?
Are there armed guards preventing you entering the forest and living off birds you kill with your hands and sleeping on pine needles?
Well, yes, actually. Not without reason, but literally, yes. Typically some combination of public property, private property, and wildlife/safety regulations stop that from being a long-term solution. Depending on how far away from society you go, you can escape scrutiny for a time, but you’ll never be safe from the threat of the cops rolling in and destroying whatever you have and dragging you out for trespassing or violating public land ordinances.
Wow you suck
Look, it’s an artist’s rendition of the near future.
Better dressed than most modern people with a home and employment.
This was before fast fashion. Clothes were more expensive, but better made. You had far fewer pieces of clothing, and you’d repair them if they got worn, torn, loose seams, etc. The fact that there are five people carrying a small suitcase and a rolled-up pack between them suggests that most - if not all - of their clothes are on their backs.
Yup, I’d take a larger suitcase on a vacation. Moving nowadays wouldn’t be possible without a vehicle.
I worked out of my 3 day old pajamas today.
It’s a great time to be alive and privileged!
