Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Happy Christmas.....

USA,1930`s by Dorothea Lange

Happy Christmas....

Mother of a family of nine living in a field on U.S. Route 70, near the Tennessee River. Photo taken in March 1936 by Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.

A reality still in many places around our globe. So many advances, but poverty and war, are still humanity`s eternal companions. It was like that in 1836, 1936 or 2019.... 

Happy Christmas....

Outside Paris in the mid 1960`s. Photo: Gérald Bloncourt

This photo of a Portuguese immigrant child is so much more than that moment....it is a child with curiosity and dreams that the future could be different. Everything is written on her face. A truly beautiful picture.

Merry Christmas....

80 years passed....but for many nothing has changed

Christmas dinner in 1936 at the home of Earl Pauley near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consists of potatoes, cabbage and pie. Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. This was probably one of the better meals of the year....

Merry Christmas to you all !

Merry Christmas....

..primary school, Portugal around 1940

.."can they know it's Christmas time at all"

To you all....

Primary school in Portugal, around 1940. Photo by Bernard Hoffman 

..Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas....

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photo: Dorothea Lange, California, 1930`s

Some pictures go straight into your heart....

photo: by Hugo Santos (click to enlarge)

Captured at Alameda Afonso Henriques in Lisbon during early 2009. The body language of this gentleman (wich i presume is an east european imigrant) seems like an open book. There is an aura of resignation and sadness around him. Crashed dreams or homesickness? A hard life far from home? A reality for many in Europe in 2012, and a reminder to be grateful for the good things we have.