check out the collection linked. heart-rending stuff.

life:

As a photographer for LIFE magazine, Carl Mydans captured some of the most memorable images from World War II: General MacArthur coming ashore in the Philippines, for instance, and Japan’s surrender aboard the USS Missouri. But before that, in his work for the Farm Security Administration, he covered a different kind of battle — the battle against the crushing poverty faced by families across America during the Great Depression.

“Almost half of these photographs show children; the marks of poverty seem to besmirch their innocence,” writes journalist and author Annie Proulx in her introduction to the Fields of Vision book compiling Mydans’ work.

see more — Carl Mydans: Lens of the Depression