Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II

Compelling photographs of people and places throughout Maryland during one of the nation's most anxious decades.

Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken—4,000 in Maryland—and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Constance B. Schulz presents a selection of these imag...