Marion Post Wolcott

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.