Given how dark the world looks right now, sometimes it’s hard to fathom the suffering of times past. By any standard, the era of the Great Depression, roughly spanning the decade before World War II, qualifies as a time of extreme hardship worldwide. For the technology of the time, the Depression in the US was quite well documented, particularly by some outstanding photographers who were employed by the US government’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information — the largest photography project ever undertaken by the US government. And now those photographs are easier than ever to search and find with Photogrammar, Yale University’s…
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