An interactive web-based county-level map created by team from Yale University allows users to view Depression-era photos taken in each available county by federally paid photographers. (A man uses enormous asbestos mittens to handle hot magnesium ingots at
Basic Magnesium’s plant in the southern Nevada desert in 1943.)
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Interactive, county-level map shows Depression-era photos taken throughout the U.S
Labels:
depression,
historic preservation,
history,
photography,
photojournalism
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