The Great Depression - That Oregon Life

This is What Oregon Looked Like in the Great Depression Of The 1930’s

by Danielle Denham | May 12, 2026 | Art, Featured, History, Interesting, Photos

Few photographers captured the raw emotion of the Great Depression quite like Dorothea Lange. Armed with a camera and an unshakable sense of compassion, Lange traveled across the American West documenting the lives of struggling families during one of the hardest...

This is What Oregon Looked Like in the 1930s Great Depression

by Danielle Denham | Jan 13, 2020 | Art, Eastern Oregon, Featured, History, Interesting, Photos, Southern Oregon, Western Oregon

From humble beginnings in 1890s New Jersey and contracting polio at age 7 (which left her with a lifelong limp), Dorothea Lange went on to become one of the most prolific photojournalists of her era. At the time she graduated high school, Lange had never even owned or...