A photograph captures a moment in time. Moments that have passed and moments that otherwise we’d have no access to. Luckily, Yale documents released pictures from across America that highlight life during and after the Great Depression. During this time, North Carolina’s prime source of income was in tobacco farming and agriculture. But, the workers still took time to kick back when they weren’t working. All of this simple life, from the farming, the rehabilitation clients of the Great Depression, and their leisure time was all captured and is now available for the world to see.
The oldest daughter of L.A Johnson picks cotton in a field. L.A was a sharecropper who worked about 10 acres, received half the cotton, and had to pay for supplies like fertilizer. This picture was captured in Statesville in 1939.
This traveling sideshow was a "Crime Museum" that consisted of dilapidated displays of infamous criminals. The whole show was run by a shellshocked World War Veteran near Silver Lake. The image was captured in 1941.
Marine Corps submachine gunners. The mask and deadly Johnson submarine were part of the kit fighting tools of this leatherneck in training. Captured in New River in 1942.
A Florida migratory worker studies a roadmap of North Carolina before leaving Elizabeth City and heading to Bridgeville, Delaware, to work at a cannery.
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