For the sake of memory and hope for the future

Two families with 11 children in all living in one house that is very inadequate but all that is available in Quincy, Massachusetts, December 1940 in a photograph by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress.

Coal miner, Colp, Illinois, January 1939 from an acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration, Library of the Congress.

Among the few remaining inhabitants of Zinc, Arkansas, a deserted mining town, October 1935 from a 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Resettlement Administration, Library of Congress.

The Ponderosa in West Virginia by Howard Horenstein

Maxwell Street, early 1950’s, Chicago by Marvin Newman

Salvaging coal from the slag heaps, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, 1937. 10 cents for

each hundred-pound sack. A photograph by Ben Shahn for the Resettlement

Administration, Library of Congress

Red House, West Virginia school truck, October 1935 from a 35mm 

nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration,

 Library of Congress

Greene County Fair, Greensboro, Georgia, October 1941 in a photograph by

 Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress