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From the Great Depression to World War II - photos from the American Memory collection


DONNA LAFRAMBOISE  aka  TripodGirl
The American Memory collection contains more than 162,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all. As a photographer, I consider these images nothing short of wondrous. This blog showcases some of them.

November 4, 2008

Coal Miner's Daughter

to locate this image on the American Memory website use search terms COAL MINE DAUGHTER TENNESSEEThe caption accompanying this photo reads: "Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California."

One wonders what became of this person. Were any of her dreams realized?

Taken by Dorothea Lange, 1936.

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to locate this image, use search terms: coal, mine, daughter, Tennessee

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