These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration,
are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the
Depression on American rural and small town populations. The FSA
was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight
of poor farmers. Their aim was to introduce America to Americans.
Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered
by the FSA project. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks
were three of the most famous.
(Thanks to MG)