The photographer was Dorothea Lange.

In early 1935, [...] Lange began to work for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. That summer, the agency was transferred to the RA, which had recently begun a photodocumentary project to draw attention to the plight of the rural poor. (In 1937, the RA would become the Farm Security Administration, or FSA.) Lange worked for the FSA periodically between 1935 and 1939, primarily traveling around California, the Southwest, and the South to document the hardships of migrant farmers who had been driven west by the twin devastations of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

She's the photographer who took the "Migrant Mother" series, some of the most iconic images of the Depression.

Fucking pathetic then and it’s fucking pathetic now. Some of those shanty towns were real fuckin nice compared to our tent cities.

Fucking pathetic, we could do better but instead humanity would rather be a selfish cunt

Holy cow, the wife looks hardly 25 years old. They really popped kids out back to back in them days. I guess it's true you just believed in the Lord, had a bunch of young'uns, and hoped and prayed to Jesus Christ at least one of them made it to adulthood. Contrast that to the middle class lifestyle of many Americans just a little more than a decade later and it becomes even more of a mind-blower.

These people are homeless and dress better than I do with a decent job. That's depressing.

Is there more information available about this photo?

Look, it’s an artist’s rendition of the near future.

And right wingers would call them freeloaders and tell them to get a job

They had nowhere to go, how are they going to get a job and there are many other factors why someone cannot work

Also fuck capitalism, we should be free to live our lives and not be slaves to the capitalist system

It's OK.

In another year Daddy gets drafted and starts making money.

A year after that he gets killed in WW2.

And at the end of the war, all the Boomer children in this photo get rich and have keep all the money for themselves.......

Better dressed than most modern people with a home and employment.