While racing around the internet looking for more news on the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival I was struck by the above photo posted at BlitzLift, one of those websites where you have to click through a page at a time to get the whole story. At least the women in the photo weren't skeletons; I've seen photos of skeletal Americans during that era. Hunger, even starvation in 1930s America was rampant. Yet today it's so hard to imagine what it was like. These photos can help remind us of what must not be forgotten.
From the introduction to the BlitzLift photo gallery:
Never Before-Seen Photos of the Great Depression
At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to document the country in order to gain support for government programs. Several photographers were commissioned, resulting in over 180,000 photos.
The catalogue has been maintained by the Library of Congress, but it wasn’t until recently that the photos became digitally searchable. The following is a small collection of these never before seen photos.
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