Depression era Photos

[HaloFan85]

Depression era and WW2 era photos from inside America from the years 1935-1945 have been organized and uploaded to an interactive map of the USA.  They're sorted on the map by 'county' and there's about 170,000 photos in all.

 

The darker the shade of green, the more pictures contained.  Enjoy.

 

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/

 

[mrwicked]

Nice!

Love historic photographs.

Big thanks for posting this.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Cool find, gonna definitely waste away some time clicking on that. Its sad,obviously, but im always interested in stuff from that era

[Vegas Halo Fan]

My father grew up during the Great Depression. I will always believe that it forever shaped his paranoid aversion to spending money.

[IEAngelsfan]

Very cool.

 

A lot of photos of female aircraft workers in the Los Angeles area.  My mother worked in the Boeing plant and I was looking to see if I saw her in one of the pictures, but alas, nothing.

[ABC]

Two employees of the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, California, entertain their fellow workers with a boxing match during the lunch period recreation program.

 

[ABC]

[Redondo]

Some good pictures

[yk9001]

There are some great ones in California of Rosie the Riveters, and blacks also working on planes.  That was a big deal, I guess.

[Jay]

Love the photos of the aircraft assembly lines.  Impressive manufacturing capability.

[Tank]

My father grew up during the Great Depression. I will always believe that it forever shaped his paranoid aversion to spending money.

 

my dad grew up then, too. my dad is willing to spend his money, but he often approaches life like a poor person. even when he was making some money he looked for coupons and 2-for1 deals, and we'd eat at a smorgasboard by our house because it was all you can eat. when we go out to eat now, he eats every. single. bite. of food on his plate, no matter how long it takes (which is long) and no matter how long ago the rest of us finished (usually a while ago). he also talks a lot while he eats, so there's no such thing as a quick meal with him.

[IEAngelsfan]

my dad grew up then, too. my dad is willing to spend his money, but he often approaches life like a poor person. even when he was making some money he looked for coupons and 2-for1 deals, and we'd eat at a smorgasboard by our house because it was all you can eat. when we go out to eat now, he eats every. single. bite. of food on his plate, no matter how long it takes (which is long) and no matter how long ago the rest of us finished (usually a while ago). he also talks a lot while he eats, so there's no such thing as a quick meal with him.

My parents grew up during the depression as well.  My mom was a very generous person who would give the blouse off her back to anyone in need. The only time I would notice something odd would be when we would go out to eat.  She would grab all the sugar or cracker packs and put them in her purse.  I would roll my eyes and she would respond by saying that it came with the meal and we paid for it.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

My father was pathologically cheap. One of my school friends said that my family lived a self-imposed lower class lifestyle. My father continued to live like a pauper after my mother died, in fact I believe that it got worse after he lived alone.

[Tank]

My parents grew up during the depression as well.  My mom was a very generous person who would give the blouse off her back to anyone in need. The only time I would notice something odd would be when we would go out to eat.  She would grab all the sugar or cracker packs and put them in her purse.  I would roll my eyes and she would respond by saying that it came with the meal and we paid for it.

 

when my dad lived in taiwan, he would bring things back to give to us. a lot of times he ended up bringing sugar packets from a taiwan mcdonalds or plastic forks and spoons (usually used and sometimes with food debris still on them) from the same places. i have no doubt that's how he got his silverware for his apartment, which was fine to do. but bringing them back to us was weird.

[arch stanton]

My dad wasn't born until 1942 but my nickname for him is The Great Depression.

[HaloFan85]

Some really neat pictures in the San Fran collection.

 

San Francisco, California. Bank of America victory bond ad:

 

May 1943

 

"It's always time to buy another bond!"

 

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Uncle sam was ripped!

[sneaky_flute]

Check out photos from that era that are digitally colored. It's surreal because you can't help but think of life back then in black and white. 

[deepdrive]

I never had chicken for dinner growing up. My dad was a child in the latter years of the depression. He had an entire year where the only food they had was a garden and the chickens they raised. He never ate chicken once as an adult.

[ABC]

Uncle sam was ripped!

 

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[Guest]

Man, thanks for posting this. What an awesome site.

 

I studied History in undergrad, Ancient History, but I still took plenty of American History courses. Historical photographs get me quite excited.

Edited October 9, 2015 by failos