During the Great Depression, the federal government sent photographers around the country to meet Americans and document their lives. Those photographers took some 170,000 photographs throughout the latter half of the 1930s and into the 194os. The images they captured are among the most iconic of the era.
There's a new way to browse the images by state and even by county. The site is called Photogrammer and it was created by a team at Yale University.
In North Carolina, photographers captured migrants passing through the state, sharecroppers harvesting cotton, workers in the tobacco warehouses and more. Take a look:
Credit Dorothea Lange / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-009337
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-009337
Credit Jack Delano / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-043350
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-043350
Credit Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-030387
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-030387
Credit Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-050656
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-050656
Credit Walker Evans / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-009084
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-009084
Credit Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-009084
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-009084
Credit Jack Delano / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-020566
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF33-020566
Credit Jack Delano / Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-040841
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Library of Congress Call Number LC-USF34-040841
H/t to KPLU's Quirksee.
