Through Photogrammar’s 170,000 photos, history, and stories are told, which portray all different points of view involving poverty, labor, and more.
Issues: economic differences, division between classes
Groups highlighted: families/individuals in the lower class, laborers, migrants
Approaches: the photographs in Photogrammar focus on the extreme poverty faced by rural families during the Great Depression and war. Many of the photographs display the lives of sharecroppers, migrant workers, and low-class families, providing a visual of economic inequality during these periods.
Options to click on different categories of people, based on gender, age, and jobs. Includes a variety of people.
Examples:
Husband is an unemployed coal miner.