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Imagine looking at a state in forty-year intervals. Documenting Kentucky: Three Photographic Surveys, does just that in a new show at the Frazier History ...
With 454 images arranged with as little order as possible, viewers are encouraged to wander and make their own ...
The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in modern history, fundamentally reshaping the global economy. What ...
By the late '30s, obstacles still in use today, such as windmills, wishing wells, and castles, were added to the courses, ...
MIDDLETOWN -- George A. Tice, the unofficial “photographer laureate” of New Jersey whose black-and-white photographs often captured the visceral, almost haunting urban landscapes of his home ...
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.
Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...
(Cori Rae Photography) On the other side of my family tree is Grandma Margaret, who also grew up during the 1930s, but lived as a farm kid instead of in a city. She grew up with wholesome and ...
The Great Depression in North Dakota was a time of contradiction, a time of hunger marches and riots. And it was American laborers that in part dragged the nation from an abyss.
Born in 1895, Dorothea Lange became one of the most iconic photographers during the Great Depression for her strong, compelling photos of migrant families and homeless farmers. Though the majority ...
Dorothea Lange: An alternative look at the photographer who humanised the Great Depression. Her iconic photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ cemented Dorothea Lange’s place in history.