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https://blanton.emuseum.com/objects/14537/dance-marathon

Although subtlety is not one of the virtues of Philip Evergood's 1934 "Dance Marathon", viewers today might well require an explanation of what dance marathons were in order to understand the picture.

Once the subject is clarified, the picture provides an excellent starting point for thinking about art and the Great Depression and the possibilities and problems of "political" art then and now.

"Dance Marathon" also offers a way into some important literature of the twenties and thirties, since a dance marathon is central to hardboiled writer Horace McCoy's 1935 novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".

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Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley Toppenish, Yakima Valley, Wash. Aug. 1939. Family who traveled by freight train.

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772704/

Frugal people share the best money-saving advice from parents and grandparents they still use

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/frugal-living-tips-ex1/

Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. Here are a few of her photos.

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Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. She is best-known for her empathetic photographs of people during the Great Depression. However, she is also one of the first to document the suffering of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.

Lange grew up poor, in New York’s Lower East Side. She was one of the only gentiles in her school, which was predominantly Jewish. As a young adult, she moved to San Francisco, where she began her career doing portraits for the wealthy. But as the depression began, she turned her camera to the streets, hobo camps, refugees from Oklahoma, farmers, breadlines, the homeless, portraying the misery and desperation of the period, becoming one of the first photodocumentarians. 22 of her photographs were used in John Steinbeck’s 1936 journalistic series for the San Francisco news, The Harvest of Gypsies, and they served as an inspiration for the film version of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

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#History #Iowa #GreatDepression #Bricks

I’m aiming to make a post in my blog before the month is over. Possible titles are:

“And the Brick Played On”
or
“The Brick Abides”

Specifically, this brick (and about 160 more just like it):

1938 Richmond tobacco workers protest over wages and housing inequality

📰 Original title: Woman Standing on a Street Holding a Sign Reading “OUR BOSS OWNS 77 HOUSES — WE CAN’T PAY RENT”

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