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Yale Showcases 170,000 Depression-Era Photos

Among the collection are more than 1,300 images of life in Baltimore in the 1930s.

By Jess Mayhugh | October 7, 2015, 02:10 pm

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Photography by John Vachon / Courtesy of the Farm Security Administration

8e11178v — July 1938. Man sleeping in fish market. Baltimore, Maryland. - Sheldon Dick

8d27934v — April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Peanut stand. - Marjory Collins

3c30250v — April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Shoe shine boy. - Marjory Collins

8d27929v — April 1943. Workers reading the newsstand papers while waiting for a trolley after work. - Marjory Collins

3c31152v — April 1943. Meat Warehouse. - Marjory Collins

8d30550v — June 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Funeral of a merchant seaman. Pallbearers with flag-covered casket. - Jack Delano

8d15844v — April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Nun awaiting contributions of workers in the Bethlemhem Fairfield shipyard at the company gates just before three o'clock whistle. - Marjory Collins

8d28404v — May 1943. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. - Arthur S. Siegel

8d27942v — April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Crowding onto a bus at 4 p.m. - Marjory Collins

8d31913v — May 1943. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Student nurse at work in the pediatrics ward. - Ann Rosener

8d29224v — May 1943. Looking from grandstand at Pimlico racetrack. - Arthur S. Siegel