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“Il faut faire du noir une couleur de lumière.”
Clémence Boulouque
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Tea break at Didcot Motive Power Depot. A scene from the past recreated on a Timeline Events photo charter.
"What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver"
Mahathma Gandhi
To earn 1,000 Sri Lankan rupees, workers must harvest at least 18kg per day otherwise they get a lower rate per kilo. These fees are set by the government which also leases the tea estates to companies
All Chris Adolf's children are hard workers on the new place. Yakima Valley, Washington. Farm of Rehabilitation Administration borrower, 1939.
Dorothea Lange, photographer, August 1939
Original picture:
Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
© Dorothea Lange, 1939
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
The winter morning shadows in Richfield County Park highlight the efforts of the WPA development here in the late 1930s, such as infrastructure (the "highway" bridge shown), tree planting ,etc.