The Iconic Unemployed Worker with a Social Security Tattoo: The Story Behind One of the Most Striking Photos of the Great Depression

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In 1939, photographer Dorothea Lange passed through Oregon’s Willamette Valley, documenting life during the Great Depression. While traveling, she paused to observe a string bean harvest, where a large influx of temporary workers had arrived to pick crops for a few weeks in August. Many of these workers were migrants from outside Oregon, including Kansas, […]