Subject: MORE SCENES FROM THE '30s

MORE SCENES FROM THE '30s

June 1st, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly MORE SCENES FROM THE '30s The line is thin between surviving the Great Depression and the alternative. Above is "Old Man at the River Bank"; U. S. c.19 ...

APPALACHIA: WEST VIRGINIA

May 30th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly APPALACHIA: WEST VIRGINIA Why has there been such an effort for photojournalists to document life in West Virginia? Perhaps it is because of the relati ...

PUEBLO, COLORADO

May 25th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly PUEBLO, COLORADO As it looked c.1899 above. The danger here was in trying to avoid stepping in the horse droppings while crossing the street. Below the ...

LOUISIANA

May 23rd, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly LOUISIANA Louisiana proud. Above is a scene taken on a bayou that we call "Ragin' Cajuns" (1938). "...We used to drive,Through Lafayette and Baton Roug ...

AMERICANISM

May 18th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly AMERICANISM In terms of what we call the American cultural experience we present these two images. Above is "The American Spirit"; Wisconsin (June 1943 ...

SCUBA DIVERS OF THE CARIBBEAN

May 16th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly SCUBA DIVERS OF THE CARIBBEAN The selection of images from the event "Scuba Divers of the Caribbean" is now complete. We present 37 images from over 80 ...

A NATION ON THE MOVE

May 11th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly A NATION ON THE MOVE Hard times require hard choices. During the 1930s scenes of migration were common as people hoped for a better life elsewhere, Abo ...

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

May 9th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly THE PRICE OF FREEDOM This Memorial Day let us remember the true price of freedom. And what a heavy price has been paid. Above we present "A Soldier's S ...

HARD TIMES IN EAST TEXAS

May 4th, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly HARD TIMES IN EAST TEXAS The Great Depression hit East Texas especially hard. Although the extent of the Dust Bowl did not reach into East Texas scenes ...

TEXAS DUST BOWL

May 2nd, 2017 at 10:00 am EST

View this email online if it doesn't display correctly TEXAS DUST BOWL Two recent arrivals of Texas dust bowl images at DPI. The above image dates from c.1935 while the bottom image from c.1938. Not much ha ...