Great Depression in the United States

Destitute man leaning against vacant store (by Dorothea Lange, 1935)

School in Alabama (1935)

Man in worn coat lies down on pier, New York City docks (1935)

Arkansas squatter's home, October 1935

Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, October 1935

Children of sharecropper, near West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas, August 1935

Children of sharecropper, North Carolina, September 1935

Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan, NY, October 1935

Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother", March 1936

Unemployed men eating in Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen in Washington, D.C. (1936)

Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen in Washington, D.C. (1936)

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, August 1936

Christmas dinner in home of Earl Pauley, near Smithland, Iowa, December 1936

Broke, baby sick, and car trouble! February 1937

People in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, February 1937

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, March 1937

Toward Los Angeles, California, March 1937

Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California, spring 1937

Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, February 1939

Children of agricultural day laborer in doorway of home near Tullahassee, Oklahoma, June 1939

Child looking out of window of tent home near Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, June 1939

Public Health nursing made available through child welfare services.