The Great Depression began in the United States with the stock market crash in October 1929, which instigated a severe worldwide economic downturn. President Franklin Roosevelt responded with a ...

Dorothea Lange, born in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, was a seminal American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Best known for her poignant images during the Great Depression, Lange's ...

Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her work during the 1930s with Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Lange studied ...