A Saturday afternoon in Hagerstown (Maryland) during the Great Depression, 1937

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In October 1937, Farm Security Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein visited the small city of Hagerstown in Maryland. He spent a whole afternoon, strolling the streets of the town, taking pictures of residents, documenting their everyday life. In a way, Hagerstown could be called the “Everytown” of the 1930s in the US. Hagerstown was founded in […]