Consider two images: the famous Dorothea Lange photograph of Florence Thompson on page 760 and the photograph of workers building the Grand Coulee Dam on page 762. Why is the first image more frequently associ- ated with the Great Depression than the second? How would it change our understanding of the era if we made the second photograph the iconic repre- sentation of the depression?

Consider two images: the famous Dorothea Lange photograph of Florence Thompson on page 760 and the photograph of workers building the Grand Coulee Dam on page 762. Why is the first image more frequently associ- ated with the Great Depression than the second? How would it change our understanding of the era if we made the second photograph the iconic repre- sentation of the depression?