Some of Dorothea Lange's 1930s photos for the Farm Security Administration have featured recently at Shorpy's Vintage Photos. Here are two:
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What can I say? Wow...
Posted by: SnoopyTheGoon | March 14, 2008 at 04:12 PM
I suppose that the first might not be posed.
Posted by: dearieme | March 14, 2008 at 08:57 PM
"I suppose that the first might not be posed."
That's a hell of a lot of work to go to to make a bldg. look decrepit...;)
Posted by: DaninVan | March 15, 2008 at 06:35 PM
The young woman is likely dead of old age or is at least in her 90's.
One can't help but hope that life improved for her, even knowing that her husband would in all probability have been off to war in a few years.
That pics just too close to home vis-a-vis my late mother.
Posted by: DaninVan | March 15, 2008 at 06:52 PM