Depression Era Photographs

I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsBy

Maya Angelou

Typical view of store and cotton trader

Arkansas Sharecropper

Arkansas tenant farmer

Home of cotton picker

Daughter of Negro sharecropper

Cotton pickers

Picking cotton

Negro cotton pickers

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers

Sharecropper with homemade water wagon

Housewife boiling clothes

San Joaquin Valley, CA

Cotton PickerSan Joaquin Valley

Men in Recreation HallTulare Migrant Camp

San Joaquin Valley DepressionHighway 99

Southern San Joaquin ValleyCotton Picker

Depression, California

Saturday Night DanceTulare Migrant Camp