Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson |
On this page is a sampling of images and text from Children of the Depression. The book itself contains more than 150 images, as well as excerpts from diaries, letters, oral histories, and journals. | |
 Red House, West Virginia, October 1935. School boys at an RA rural rehabilitation project. Ben Shahn. Library of Congress |
When I
was a kid in school I had three jobs: I passed papers,
worked at a filling station, and ushered at the theater.
I'd get off the paper route and go to the theater, and
usher at the theater, and on the weekend it was work the
filling station--and you'd lose half the day on
collection on the paper route . . . So like I say I've
always been busy, and I've always had a job. Jeremiah Rushing, oral history |
