Reception in the Office of the C. J. Walker Company, 1929

This Van Der Zee image depicts several African American women at a social gathering in 1929 in Harlem. This gives the viewer a sight into the world of finer things and the way a higher society would live their daily lives.

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California, 1937

This image by Dorothea Lange shows what life was like on the other side of the country around the same time in America. This woman has no home or a place for social gatherings other than the shanty shacks and temporary houses that were put up while they worked in cotton fields or other forms of farming. This life was a way to begin the American dream for a lot of immigrants.