Credits

Photo credits.

The historical pictures on this site are public-domain U.S. government photographs and posters, found through Wikimedia Commons. They show the history of the programs we cover. They never show our team or any real reader.

The courtyard of the Harlem River Houses, one of the first federally funded public housing projects — Harlem River Houses, one of the first federal housing projects

Sources

Every picture we use

First printing of food stampsHarris & Ewing, 1939
First food stampsHarris & Ewing, 1939
Food CouponsU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1990s
Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare bill, with Harry TrumanWhite House Press Office, 1965
Johnson hands Truman a pen at the signing of the Medicare billWhite House Photograph Office, 1965
Act of July 30, 1965 (Public Law 89-97)National Archives, 1965
View of Harlem River Houses Courtyard (1942)Federal Writers' Project, 1937
Harlem River Houses Kitchen Interior (1937)La Guardia collection, 1937
Harlem River Houses Bedroom (1937)La Guardia collection, 1937
Better housingWPA Poster Collection, 1936
Planned housing fights diseaseWPA Poster Collection, 1937
Hold on to Your Social Security CardNational Archives, 1940s
Mrs. Botner, wife of FSA rehabilitation borrowerRussell Lee, 1941