Images are from a library of “killed” images from the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression. The images were “killed” by having a hole pinched through the negative, for reasons explored by Erica X. Eisen in her article, “The Kept and the Killed” in Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed
