Rain, Heavy at Times

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Rain and snow in Providence, Rhode Island: photo by Jack Delano, December 1940

First no sound in the world, and then
the blowing of the wind through the trees
in the fleeting dark of night
violent at times, how do those old trees stand it

Rain in the downspouts
before dawn, the very large
in the very small
again

Rainy day, Indianapolis, Indiana: photo by John Vachon, January 1942

Rainy day, Indianapolis, Indiana: photo by John Vachon, January 1942

Rainy day, Indianapolis, Indiana: photo by John Vachon, January 1942

Rain, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: photo by John Vachon, June 1941

Car parked in the rain on residential street, Detroit, Michigan: photo by Arthur Siegel, July 1942



Ohio River in flood, Louisville, Kentucky: photo by Carl Mydans, March 1936

Rain over New Mexico, from Capulin National Monument, Capulin, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, September 1939

Heavy rain, Custer County, Montana (in the plains area most of the annual ten inches of rain comes in torrents, creating gullies and sheet erosion): photo by Arthur Rothstein, June 1939

State highway number 45 near State College, Pennsylvania in the rain: photo by Edwin Rosskam, July 1941

Rain-soaked tobacco field near Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940

Slick Georgia road during pause in heavy rain, near Flint River, Georgia: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, May 1939



After rain, house exteriors on Van Horn Street, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935



Front of old brick structure in section near Union Station, Washington, D.C.; land is low here and water collects in front and backyard after a rain and remains for many days; entrances to privies are usually under water; interior of homes similar in shabbiness to exterior: photo by Carl Mydans, September 1935

Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain, California: photo by Dorothea Lange, February 1936


Cows out in the rain on the farm of Mr. Addison, an FSA client, Westfield, Connecticut: photo by Jack Delano, September 1940

Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress