I'm sorry if you found issue with the photos and the captions. Especially if they distracted from the subject matter or led you to pass an uniformed judgement.

When doing image research, there was an enourmous amount of content surrounding the famous Dorothea Lange photo (This shouldn't be a surprise). And as a historian, I used this caption to try to introduce the topic with some detail. Regarding the in-line photo, though, I was comfortable with it being more broadly illustrative of the Great Depression as an iconic represntation of the poverty and loss felt by nearly every sector of American society. Regarding the caption, per se: I usually try to use in-line image captions as a chance to inject some humor or levity to a subject. You'll see this trend if you view other articles of mine. But regarding the choice of a bread line photo of the aftrican americans in front of a white-washed advertisement—I guess I assumed the irony and subtext were obvious to savvy readers. Perhaps I am mistaken. In any case, since this article isn't specifically about race or the role of economic downturns on various segments of our society, I'll conceed that I didn't call it out. I'm sorry if that offended. That wasn't the intent.