"The first picture looks like one of those photos of somebody in a shantytown during the Depression."
You make a great point and I don't know if you were thinking of this specific photo:
... but it was widely used to garner support for FDR's idiot programs. The story they told about the subjects in the photo ("Seven hungry children. Father is native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tires to buy food.") was a complete fabrication, just like Anthropogenic Climate Change. The woman's car had broken down right in front of a pea pickers' camp and she and her kids were temporarily stranded while her husband got the car repaired. Libs used photos to sell lies 80 years ago and they continue to do so today.