Yale released a trove of 170,000 photos last year that offer an unvarnished view of what the United States looked like during the Depression. The Farm Security Administration sent out a fleet of photographers to document the United States that included Dorothea Lange, whose haunting portraits from the Dust Bowl became iconic. Thanks to Yale, you can now you can easily sort through all these photos by date, geography and photographer. There are nearly 6,000 from D.C. alone.

We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the collection. There are photos that show people from all walks of life: tourists at the Washington Monument, a peanut seller in front of the White House, government workers, middle-class suburbs, and life amidst poverty.