Bust to Boom: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936-1949

"I was supposed to be taking pictures to show that this was a great country and I was finding out it really was. . . . I didn't know it at the time, but I was having a last look at America as it used to be."—John Vachon

Kansans of the 1930s and 1940s lived through more sweeping changes than any other generation past or present. Destructive forces of nature, an economy gone awry, and a devastating—and ironically, economically renewing—war left the world irrevocably altered. In this captivatin...