by Jacob Goldstein

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.
Library of Congress

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.

When I think of the Depression, I see sharecroppers sitting in tents with their children, and men in hats waiting in food lines — all in black and white.

It turns out the Library of Congress has a cache of color photos taken around the country in the late ’30s and early ’40s. (Color film was commercially available in