These sad photos show destitute Great Depression families waiting for aid, 1937-1939

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As the consequences of the Great Depression, unemployment, poverty, and the effects of the Dust Bowl ravaged the country in the 1930s, government programs such as the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were established. American photographers were employed to document the dire conditions. In these poignant photos, the FSA photographers Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell […]