Images from the Great Depression: Seems Like Just Yesterday
Reprinted from Common Dreams (March 25, 2012) by permission of author. By Paul Buchheit In March of 1936 U.S. photographer Dorothea Lange, on her way to San Francisco after searching the countryside for Depression-era photos, passed a sign saying “Pea Picker’s Camp” in Nipomo, California. Thinking little of it, she drove on. But a few…