Poverty in black and white

Welcome into the tragic era of the Great American Depression
A photographic black and white glimpse into the past.


        Life was not easy during the 1930s, as you will easily see through these pictures of the Great Depression.

Great Depression Picture: A Wife and Children of a Sharecropper

(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.) Wife and children of a sharecropper in Washington County, Arkansas. (Circa 1935)