The Great Depression wasn’t just a rough patch — it was an economic freefall that left millions struggling to survive. Sparked by the 1929 stock market crash and worsened by bank failures, job losses, ...

Controversies often swirl like snow around artists hired to promote a cause. They compromise integrity, manipulate images, create propaganda, say some. Such charges obscure artistic skill. It seems ...

HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...

My father, Irving Kaufman (1910 – 1982), was a professional photographer who started in Brooklyn in the mid 1930s working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He captured thousands of images of Brooklyn ...

For some, The Great Depression is just another era they read about in history books. But for others, it was a defining chapter in their parents' and grandparents' lives. Those stories passed down at ...

‘Reality Makes Them Dream’ features over 100 prints, periodicals and photo books from the 1930s that go beyond the documentary-style images we’ve come to expect from the era. Marion Post Wolcott, ...