Photos That Show Georgia During The Great Depression Era

 Woodville, Greene County, GA - May 1939

Evolution of the New York Skyline

Mother Cat Stops Traffic, New York, July 1925

Bikers, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1965

Who is bigger rebel?

Prohibition Raid, Detroit, 1929

Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, pours out of upper windows of three-story storefront in Detroit during Prohibition.

Rappelling Lincoln

Mount Rushmore ca. 1936

Nighttime view of the Empire State Building, 1932.

Dot Smith, female stunt rider from the 1930s and 40s

She was a member of the San Francisco Motorcycle Club and a founding member of the iconic “Motor Maids” with Dot Robinson and Linda Degeau.In this photograph she’s sitting on her 1937 EL Knucklehead and looking damn near perfect with that little ribbon in her hair.

New York Between Two World Wars

Worker on the framework of the Empire State Building

Photographer: Lewis Hine

Mother Cat Stops Traffic, New York, July 1925

Wash day, 1920s

Nighttime view of the Empire State Building, 1932

German postcards from a 1930s

German postcards from a 1930s traveling exhibit of a life-sized human figure made of glass to show his organs.