Vintage View: American Beauty Migrant Mother

Kya deLongchamps is reflective as she looks at an affordable collectible which holds a story — American Depression glass.

THERE is a series of images illustrating the human impact of the Great Depression in the United States, that just about every adult will remember having once seen it.

A seated woman, almost transparent with wear and worry holds a baby resolutely to her breast, while two exhausted, dusty young children hang limply over her shoulders.