Photographs from the Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved
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[Detail] School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia, 1935

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Photographs of scenes from the real world in which Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved is set, taken in the 1930s and 1940s mostly around the Chesapeake Bay by photographers working for the U.S. government. The images are available from the America From the Great Depression to World War II, 1935-1945 Photograph collection.