Sitemap

Bibliography For “The Sanctuary Prophecy — Understanding Star Trek’s Best Prediction”

19 min readApr 27, 2026
Press enter or click to view image in full size

The following is my ‘works cited’ page for the video essay, The Sanctuary Prophecy — Understanding Star Trek’s Best Prediction, a video essay over at www.trekspertise.com. Trekspertise is home to thoughtful video essay commentary on all things Star Trek and science fiction.

I’ll start with some main-line reading and photo sources. If you liked the video essay, these are rabbit holes you can dive into and explore. After that, I will list all the footage, imagery, and music I used in the video essay.

Additional Reading + Viewing:

The Documerica Project, photos documenting 1970s United States: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/72157620729903309/

Wealth Inequality In The United States From 1913: Evidence From Capitalized Income Tax Data by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — LINK

US Census — Family Income (1947): https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1949/demo/p60-005.html

US Census — Family Income (1970): https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1971/demo/p60-80.html

HUD Report to the Secretary on Homeless and Emergency Shelters — LINK: https://www.google.com/books/edition/HUD_Report_on_Homelessness/pmVFCA5p-jQC?hl=en&gbpv=1

Urban Institute figure of 600,000 homeless in 1987 — Burt, M.A., and B.E. Cohen. 1988. Feeding the Homeless: Does the Prepared Meals Provision Help? A Report to Congress on the Prepared Meal Provision, Volumes I and II. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.

What Was Camp Agnos Anyway? LINK: https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/what-was-camp-agnos-anyway/article_05cd2a3f-8d83-5f78-8906-8791c496b992.html

Priority Home: The Federal Plan to Break the Cycle of Homelessness (1994) — HUD Report [“Researchers have found that about seven million Americans have experienced homelessness — some for brief periods and some for years — at some point in the latter half of the 1980s and that as many as 600,000 people are homeless on any given night.”] — LINK: https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Priority-Home-The-Federal-Plan-to-Break-the-Cycle-of-Homelessness.pdf

Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth, Edward N. Wolff (Levy Economics Institute), 2002 [see table 2] — LINK: https://www.levyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wp_502.pdf

Two different measurements on wealth inequality for 2016:

HUD’s 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) — LINK: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

HUD’s 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) — LINK: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gross Domestic Product [GDPA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; February 19, 2026. — LINK: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPA

Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2024 (Advance Estimate), released January 2025 — LINK: https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2026-01/gdp3q25-updated.pdf

Warp Factor Trek interview with Robert Hewitt Wolfe: https://warpfactortrek.com/diving-deep-into-past-tense-with-robert-hewitt-wolfe/

Los Angeles Times article from October 14, 1994 “Homeless Camp Weighed In L.A. Industrial Area” via: https://archive.ph/z2tLE

Vox — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine accidentally predicted the 2020s by writing about the 1990s — Feb 16, 2021, accessed via: https://archive.ph/5ym8i

Press enter or click to view image in full size

Footage (listed chronologically as they appear in the final edit):

“Bernie Sanders Decries Record Wealth Inequality, Warns US Has Become An ‘Oligarchic Society,’”Forbes Breaking News YouTube Channel, August 2025, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/auhxss8t

“America’s Presidents,” unknown date and author (to me), public domain, accessed via: https://archive.org/details/americas_presidents

Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981, National Archives, public domain, accessed via: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6981871

“Past Tense, Parts I and II” — “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr, and René Echevarria, directed by Reza Badiyi and Jonathan Frakes, season 3, episodes 11 and 12, Paramount Television, 1995

“Snowpiercer” images — Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Moho Film / Opus Pictures, 2013

“Mad Max: Fury Road” — Directed by George Miller, Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures

“The Hunger Games” — Directed by Gary Ross, Lionsgate / Color Force

“Altered Carbon” — Created by Laeta Kalogridis, performances by Joel Kinnaman and Anthony Mackie, Skydance Television / Netflix, 2018–2020

Press enter or click to view image in full size

Images:

“First Sustained Flight Of The Wright Brothers Flyer,” photo by John T. Daniels, 1903, uploaded and modified by Wright Stuf, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yhyv9xk3

“Rosalind Franklin With Microscope In 1955,” photo by MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 1955, uploaded and modified by MagentaGreen (in 2019), CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3e38vah5

“Tritonia ADS Diving Suit, Used In Exploring The Lusitania Wreck,” by OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP), 1935, uploaded and modified by ArtMechanic, 2006, public domain by way of NOAA, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/35s7k8m5

“Admunsen & Team At South Pole,” taken by Olav Bjaaland, 1911, uploaded by Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, this version modified by 水餃喵, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4z4m37rf

“Norris Bradbury And The Gadget Device,” taken in 1945 by the United States Federal Government, uploaded and modified by Quibik, 2016, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2mkvubk2

“Apollo 15 Lunar Rover & Astronaut James Irwin,” taken by Commander David Scott / NASA, 1971, uploaded and modified by Huntster, 2011, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/sdc8xskm

“Fighting Smallpox In Niger,” taken by CDC/ Dr. J. D. Millar, uploaded and modified by Optigan13, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5fjjz2m7

“Atlantic Charter Conference Aboard The HMS Prince Of Wales,” taken by a US Navy member, 1941, uploaded and modified by Caddyshack01, 2025, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3x6yxy5d

“Early Census Machines,” taken by the US Census, uploaded by Kayaker, 2014, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3thkam38

“Key West, Florida Bus,” taken by Don Pinder, 1952, uploaded by Infrogmation, 2022, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3rdpudh6

“President Johnson Poverty Tour,” taken by Cecil W. Stoughton, 1964, uploaded by Caddyshack01, 2024, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yw3xzb2s

“Lining Up For Snow Cones On Chicago’s West Side,” taken by John H. White, 1973, Documerica Project, US National Archives, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ys8jwd55

“Two Youths In Uptown Chicago,” taken by Danny Lyon, 1974, uploaded by US National Archives, 2011, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/nyhbzw5n

“Poor People’s March Through DC: 1968,” photo by Warren K. Leffler, 1968, courtesy of the Library of Congress, uploaded by Washington Area Spark, 2015, CC BY-NC 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ywxfvuss

“Still hungry. Still homeless. Still need help.,” taken by Ed Yourdon, 2009, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2t9e7cdt

Image of homeless woman, taken by Jason Snyder, 2016, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/42tavu62

“Beggar in Hoboken,” taken by Bain News Service, 1910, courtesy of the Library of Congress, uploaded by Fæ, 2018, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/37t5bznh

“Homeless,’ by Rui Duarte, 2011, CC BY-NC 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2fdt6s39

“Street Sense,” by Eric Faquero, 2015, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/275ebku6

“Helping The Homeless,” taken by Ed Yourdon, 2008, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yt2mfteu

“Homeless,” by Peter Clark, 2015, CC BY-NC 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3a6939cn

“Charles Conrad Jr. beside the US flag during Apollo 12,” taken by Alan L. Bean, NASA, 1969, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yr8r27ra

“Frenchman’s Flat, Nevada — Atomic Cannon Test ,” taken by the Department of Energy, Office of Public Affairs, 1953, currently held in the National Archives, uploaded in 2011, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/289jt2w2

Vaccination in Kabala, taken by Centers For Disease Control, late 1960s (?), public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/22r4ej2z

“Homeless Harvard,” taken by Dylan Pech, 2013, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4cbfxp28

“DuPont Circle,” taken by Elvert Barnes, 2021, CC BY-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/jmzrfp73

Portrait of John D. Rockefeller, 1895, Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep’t, New York. 1907, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2b9atkdn

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, taken by Dorothea Lange, 1937, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mwy6dh9f

Lithograph of a Bicycle, 1819, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/64zzn2nr

“Zbraslav Square, a show of Veteran Bicycle Club Zbraslav” 1, taken by ŠJů , 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/bdhbxwsj

“Zbraslav Square, a show of Veteran Bicycle Club Zbraslav” 2, taken by ŠJů , 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4u626c9r

“A homeless man asleep on Hollywood Boulevard,” by Jessica Jewell Lanier, 2012, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3rrp8put

“West Oakland,” by Thomas Hawk, 2017, CC BY-NC 2,0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mzz637rz

“Homeless 12,” by Allen Warren, uploaded in 2018 by user Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yep96pz6

“New York Stock Exchange,” taken and / or uploaded by TomasEE, CC BY 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ms2bxnfy

“The São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa),” taken by Rafael Matsunaga, 2007, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5n75tv4v

Fast Food Workers On Strike In Minnesota, taken by Fibonacci Blue, 2016, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4yp44xn5

Cost Of Living Protestors In Britain, taken by Alisdare Hickson, 2022, CC BY-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/57brhj8d

US Capitol Building, taken by Diliff, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yv6z9uha

San Antonio Food bank, US Department Of Agriculture, 2022, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ve3k7mmd

Portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Produced by Mathew Brady’s studio, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, between 1844 & 1860, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yjfrew22

“European Investment Bank,” by Caroline Martin, 2019, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/bv74uusk

“Hands Off! protest in Boston, MA,” taken by Rachelevey, 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mta8f2k9

“US Army soldiers in a firefight near Al Doura, Baghdad,” taken by United States Army Personnel Sean A. Foley, 2007, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4yfbz338

“Joint Task Force Matthew stack bags of rice in Dame Marie, Haiti,” taken by Sgt. Adwin Esters. U.S. Marine Corps Forces, 2016, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3kjsww4b

“COVID-19 patient wearing scuba mask,” by Mstyslav Chernov, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3yjbb6yy

“Anti-government protests in Kiev,” taken by Sasha Maksymenko, 2014, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/y3u73dc7

“Support during Hurricane Harvey,” U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez, 2017, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3x8ux6aj

“Sign Of The Times — Foreclosure,” photo by respres, 2008, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4mvenavk

“Homeless man,” photo by M1kha, 2011, CC BY-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/87faxbtv

“Homeless vets get a hand up,” photo by Master Sgt. Mark Olsen, US Air Force, 2012, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4sr8yvmz

Homeless Tent in Central Park, photo by Kodyak Tisch, 2014, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5aattexy

“Bedelaar” by Théodore Géricault, 1821, via Rijksmuseum, uploaded by Mr. Nostalgic, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yex5etnz

“Station House Lodgers” by Winslow Home, 1874, via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, uploaded by Pharos, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2s4dt9ts

“Evicted” by Erik Henningsen, 1900, via Statens Museum for Kunst, uploaded by Rsteen, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5d2nyc8t

“Das Gutmütige Kind” by Ferdinand Georg Waldmueller, before 1859, public domain, accessedv via: https://tinyurl.com/ywbfwkc8

“Ethnographic Map of North America 1928–1940,” Archivio Storico del Touring Club Italiano, by Renato Biasutti, created between 1928 & 1940, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/h5db94m7

“First Nation Control Over North America About 1600,” by Albert Gallatin, published in 1836 perhaps, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4eu4vznb

“Ethnographische Karte von Nordamerika,” Physikalischer Atlas, created by Heinrich Berghaus and Alexander von Humboldt in 1846, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/536ma6yr

“Early Localization Native Americans,“ United States geological Survey, 1967, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yc5urjkn

Image from “Indian History For Young Folks, page 466, 1919, New York London : Harper & Brothers, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3d389es2

“Mystic Massacre in New England,” Engraver unknown. 1638, author of folio this image is found in was John Underhill, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2mnwe8sz

“The soldiers of Chief Outina (or Olata Utina) fighting, using the French of the expedition of Jean Ribault (or Ribaut), the enemy tribes of Potanou,” engraving by Theodore de Bry, 1596, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4kr3v8hw

“Bayeux Tapestry — Scene 23: Harold swearing oath on holy relics to William, Duke of Normandy,” 1070s, uploaded by Myrabella, public domain, 2013, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2fwrjx29

“De triomf van de Doods” (The Triumph Of Death), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, around 1562, uploaded by Basenji1908, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/25fvv8d2

Workhouse, St James’s Parish, by Thomas Rowlandson, Augustus Charles Pugin, John Bluck, Joseph Constantine Stadler, Thomas Sutherland, J. Hill, and Harraden, 1808, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4af3jhzd

“A view of the House of Employment, Alms-House, Pennsylvania Hospital, and part of the city of Philadelphia,” by Garrison, Nicholas and Hulett, James, 1767, New York Public Library, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/49cpr8zb

Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union, by Hubert von Herkomer, 1878, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3ak5x3nn

“Hard Times,” by Hubert von Herkomer , 1885, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5n6svx9u

“Whipping Quakers At The Cart’s Tail In Boston,” from the ‘Young Folk’s History Of Boston’ by

Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1881, public domain, access via https://tinyurl.com/yd4cuewh — (While this image specifically depicts the persecution of Quakers, the punishment shown — whipping at the cart’s tail — was the standard legal mechanism used to enforce colonial ‘Warning Out’ laws against vagrants. Quakers were frequently prosecuted under these same statutes for entering jurisdictions without permission, making this a legally accurate representation of how the ‘wandering poor’ were expelled)

“Storing slaves on a Trans-Atlantic transport ship with four slave decks,” by Thomas Clarkson, 1822, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mperwd2a

“Linen Market, Dominica,” by Agostino Brunias, 1780, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yvuj2c9y (This image depicts a market in the Caribbean. While not the mainland colonies, the British West Indies were economically and culturally integrated with the future United States. Due to the rarity of color paintings from this era, this artwork is frequently used to illustrate the broader Atlantic Slave Trade.)

“Declaration Of Independence,” by John Trumbull, 1819, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/477as29a

“Newspaper illustration depicting the crowds on Wall Street on the morning of May 14 during the Panic of 1884,” Harper’s Weekly, 1884, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3u55xcka

“Battle Of Franklin,” by Kurz and Allison, 1891, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/z7c6bbry

“The Great Conemaugh Valley Disaster,” unknown artist, reproduced from a lithograph print published by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers, ~1890, uploaded by Hugh Manatee, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4uwffpa9

Image of the “Indian Wars” of the late 19th century, from Indian History For Young Folks, published in 1919, Francis Samuel Drake & Francis Joseph Dowd, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3d389es2

Navajo Indian captives under guard during the Navajo Long Walk, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, by United States Army Signal Corp, 1864, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/59x9tvsu

“Tidball’s Battery, Near Fair Oaks,” by James F. Gibson, 1862, restored by Adam Cuerden, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/94pzzms5

“Cumberland Glass Works,” by Lewis Hine, 1909, public domain, access via https://tinyurl.com/y3sjmube

“Tramps On The Train Tracks,”by Bain News Service, late 19th or early 20th century, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/38t6jhjs

“Tramp Climbing On Railroad Car,” Bain News Service, late 19th or early 20th century, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/2yuk8e4u

“Magnolia Cotton Mills,” by Lewis Hine, 1911, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/3pck8n42

“Mulberry Bend, New York,” by Jacob Riis, 1890, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mt3fx57n

“Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement,” by Jacob Riis, 1889, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/23yd85ey

“Bandit’s Roost,” by Jacob Riis, 1888, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yzfyphbz

“One of four pedlars who slept in the cellar of 11 Ludlow Street rear,” Jacob Riis, 1889, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ya7tbpe9

“Kinder aus einem Armenviertel in Coney Island spielen,” Jacob Riis, 1880s, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4kxz3yfm

“Standard Oil Octopus,” by Udo Keppler, 1904, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/nhahw7vt

“The Bosses Of The Senate,” by Joseph Keppler, 1889, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/jndys4dy

“In the Home of an Italian Rag-Picker, Jersey Street,” Jacob Riis, 1890, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mpktzfnr

“SLeeping, Homeless Children,” Jacob Riis, 1890s, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tursd

Cheap Lodging, Jacob Riis, 1890s, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/68x2xtp9

Jacob Riis, American journalist, taken by Pirie MacDonald, 1906, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/26avase3

“Coxey’s Army On The March,” unknown (to me) photographer, April 1894, public domain, accessed via: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021648995/

Another image from the march of Coxey’s Army, 1894, source unknown and photographer unknown, found via the Ohio History Connection by way of https://tinyurl.com/2ptracm2

More Coxey’s Army: https://tinyurl.com/k8cez3jj

“Theodore Roosevelt speaking from the balcony of the Hotel Allen, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1914,” by unknown photographer, public domain, accessed via https://tinyurl.com/46mnfmy5

“Miners surrender their weapons to federal troops” after the Battle of Blair Mountain, photographer unknown (to me), 1921, public domain, accessed via an article about the uprising, found here: https://tinyurl.com/8k37h6jr

“Stock Market Crash: New York, Wall Street, 1929,” unknown photographer, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yzemn3ea

“Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan,” taken by berenice Abbott, October 1935, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/tss2zcdy

Tenantless Farmland in Texas, by Dorothew Lange, June 1938, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mrxsh5sx

Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona to San Diego, taken by Dorothea Lange, February 1939, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/43nb7v8j

“Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats,” February 1933, Seattle Municipal Archives, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4z545sba

“Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio,” by ben Shahn, 1938, public domain, accessed via: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017732198/

Pittsburgh Press coverage of Cox’s Army March, January 17, 1932, access via: https://tinyurl.com/mrxfu3va

“Hunger marchers at the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., January 6, 1932,” Image Donated by Corbis — Bettmann to explorePAhistory.com (or website owner?), accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2vy24uma

“Bonus Marcher’s Anacostia Encampment,” 1932, National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mrx96p9t

“Bonus Army, Camp Anacostia,” 1932, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5n7uxpn2

“Bonus Army stages huge demonstration at empty Capitol,” 1932, public domain, accessed via: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016649901/

Removal of Bonus Army Protesters, US Signal Corp, 1932, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yxrxutd

Destruction of Bonus Army Shacks, US Signal COrp, 1932, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yr6jdxte

“Unemployed People Gather Outside City Hall,” Cleveland, Ohio, by Associated Press, October 1930, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/s3fdm487

“Miners at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,” by Farm Security Administration/Office of War, 1936, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2nj9wk62

John D.. Rockefeller Jr Portrait, unknown photographer (to me), 1920, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2p9znxjy

FDR with his German Shepherd Major, 1933, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/bdfs36z3

“Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt making a national address at the White House,” September 1936, by Harris & Ewing, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2vm9fdma

“Turpentine worker’s family near Cordele, Alabama,” by Dorothea Lange, 1936, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mv3nshv3

“CCC boys in back of truck going to work, Lassen National Forest, California,” USFS photo #285381, unknown date, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3htt8h2a

“Poster with the logo for the Works Progress Administration,” 1936, artist unknown, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3p79ujzp

“Seal of the United States Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),” developed in the 1930s (but this vectorized logo created in 2021 by Scott Nazelrod), original logo in the public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/595xx47m

“FERA camps for unemployed women,” via U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1934, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5xyjmz44

“Federal Emergency Relief Administration: FERA camp for unemployed women in Arcola, PA,” via U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, July 1934, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yjrfxr33

“Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA offices, New Orleans, Louisiana,” by Ben Shahn, 1935, public domain, accessed via: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FERA_New_Orleans_1935_Looking.jpg

“Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Association) offices, New Orleans, Louisiana,” by Ben Shahn, October 1935, public domain, accessed via: https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8a16788/

“A young cotton picker at the Kern County migrant camp in California,” by Dorothea Lange, November 1936, public domain, accessed via: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/winter/grapes.html

“Rosie The Riveter,” by Alfred T. Palmer, 1943, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/56z9wb9w

“Employees on the “Sunshine” assembly line at the North American Aviation plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, in Inglewood, Southern California,” by Alfred T. Palmer, October 1942, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ycdh3wjh

“A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala,” by Palmer, Alfred T. Palmer, June 1942, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mt8atttn

“B-25 Bomber Is Assembled,” by Alfed T. Palmer, October 1942, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2yb76e3h

“U.S. Capitol Rotunda,” interior, by Architect of the Capitol, 2015–2016, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/42s3tdy3

Another photo of the “U.S. Capitol Rotunda,” interior, by Architect of the Capitol, 2015–2016, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yvmk97bj

“U.S. Capitol Rotunda,” interior, alternate view, by Architect of the Capitol, 2015–2016, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4dyjm2s4

“Detroit Skyline, 1942,” by Arthur S. Siegel, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/32232wn8

“Employees and customers in Building Department in King County Courthouse building, Seattle, Washington, 1952,” Seattle Municipal Archives, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mpdtzrzu

“Gas Station Attendants Peer over Their “Out of Gas” Sign in Portland, on Day before the State’s Requested Saturday Closure of Gasoline Stations,” by David Falconer, November 1973, Documerica Series, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2bcc9m9m

“Miners Line Up to Go Into the Elevator Shaft at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia, by Jack Corn, April 1974, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/muxhu8vz

“Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue Bridge. Looking East from West 13th Street, Are Obscured by Smoke from Heavy Industry,” by Frank J. Aleksandrowicz, 19XX, Documerica Series, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yzmaaepu

“Ronald Reagan Shaking Hands with Supporters on a Campaign Stop in Indiana,” United States government, 1980, public domain, accessed via: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12008444

“President Ronald Reagan Posing on The White House Colonnade,” United States government, 1984, public domain, accessed via: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75853555

“Federal Hall National Memorial,” by GertBoers, 2016, CC SA-BY 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mr2dshdr

“MDD T-45 assembly line,” by US Navy, 1988, public domain, (I understand that, as representations of workers go, these particular workers laboring for a federal program probably had it better than most. However, as there is not many readily available images from the 1980s onward…this will have to do) — accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/58c7nnen

55 Water Street & Broad Street in NYC, by Giggel, 2015, CC BY 3.0 (again, due to a lack of appropriate imagery, I am letting Wall Street buildings stand in for “Supply Side” economics of the 1980s), accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5n68h6sx

Photo of Mulberry Street by Malcom Hill, 198X, via Pexels, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4kay9nwu

Shantytown in the Bronx, by Gerd Eichmann, 1982, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/44ve34my

Washington DC (homeless man in front of capitol building), by Gerd Eichmann, 1980, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/y4xd8fbr

Homeless man on a bench in New York’s Central Park, by Gerd Eichmann, 1982, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4wh9hhs7

“Workers setting up tent for the homeless Tent City, across the street from City Hall in Los Angeles, California,” by Ken Hively, 1984, Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, CC BY 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yk3vdbdz

Diamond Head Hawaii, by Eric Tessmer, 205, CC BY 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4vapy5zm

“Wicker Park, Chicago,” by Nitram242, 2012, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yrtu4ctb

“Thompkins Square Park,” by David Shankbone, 2008, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ywunrvt2

San Francisco City Hall, by Sanfranman59, 2008, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2ysvkrzu

“San Francisco At Sunset,” by Digon3, 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/35xu575h

“Charging Bull Of New York City, by Sam Valadi, 2011, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218

Homeless in Phoenix, Arizona, by Thayne Tuason, 2020, CC BY 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4fkenm42

“Nickelsville,” by Joe Mabel, 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/pjc38adf

“Homeless tents in Los Angeles Skid Row,” by Russ Allison Loar, 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3kxs96bu

“Homeless tents and flag under CA-87 in San Jose,” by Grendelkhan, 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mzcvc4dt

Right To Dream, Too A, Portland, Oregon, via Graywalls, 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3mbwvy75

Right To Dream, Too B, Portland, Oregon, via Graywalls, 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5b5wns6x

Photo of Ira Steven Behr at San Diego Comic-Con, by Keith McDuffee, 2011, C BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5axmcw5d

Screenshot of an LA Times Article from October 14, 1994, which should be covered under Fair Use Doctrine: https://cmsimpact.org/code/documentary-filmmakers-statement-of-best-practices-in-fair-use/

“Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan in a photographic portrait,” City of Los Angeles, 1997, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2vh6bh6k

“Los Angeles With Mount Baldy,” by Alek Leckszas, 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/478hdpan

“Skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, in Downtown Los Angeles,” by Tuxyyo, 2013, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2sxfm9fr

“Homeless encampment on Los Angeles Skid Row street,” by Russ Allison Loar, 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed bia: https://tinyurl.com/2fwztrwv

“Candle in the wind / human sleeping in doorway,” by Maxx@night, 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/hjd4zwy6

“Stand off between protesters and National Guard at the Rhode Island State House,” by ourblacklives, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/59x3jn2r

“George Floyd protest in Grand Army Plaza,” by Rhododentites, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/mytsh2vw

“Governor Wolf Joins March Against Injustice and Gun Violence 2020 in Harrisburg,” by office of Governor Tom Wolf, 2020, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yrve86c5

“Governor Wolf Joins March Against Injustice and Gun Violence 2020 in Harrisburg,” by office of Governor Tom Wolf, 2020, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yar78s7t

“Outside during the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 attack on the building,” by Tyler Merbler, January 6th, 2021, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/37m43avb

“Kwun Tong March, a part of the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, Studio Incendo, August 24, 2019, CC BY 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4t6v4sc5

“Protesters throwing pieces of paving during and metal tubes at riot police during clashes at Bankova str, Kiev, Ukraine,” by Mstyslav Chernov, December 2013, CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yfycehvf

Bangla Blockade, by Rayhan9d, 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ycx95bh2

“Snowpiercer” images — Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Moho Film / Opus Pictures, 2013

“Mad Max: Fury Road” — Directed by Geoge Miller, Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures

“The Hunger Games” — Directed by Gary Ross, Lionsgate / Color Force

“Stained glass window in south-west transept of Canterbury Cathedral depicting Methuselah,” photo by Robert Scarth, 2008, CC BY-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2p4hd527

“Three scenes of the legend of the Miraculous Sacrement. Stained glass windows in the Cathédrale of Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, Brussels,” photo by Alvesgaspar, 2012 (original stained glass by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, 1870), CC BY-SA 3.0, accessed via:

“Peoples Park in Berkeley,” by Al83tito, April 2021, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/bde9y5kf

“Homeless vets get a hand up,” by Master Sgt. Mark Olsen, September 2012, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yyxnaer8

“The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco as seen from Hawk Hill during blue hour,” by Daniel L. Lu, 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/5esuy7ve

“Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Reynaldo Santana unloads donated turkeys during an armed services YMCA food bank,” by Stephen Votaw, 2012, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/y2w7wu56

“Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class (Handling) Donya Craig, right, serves chicken to a patron at Norma Todd’s Lunch Break, a soup kitchen in Red Bank, N.J.,” by US Navy, 2011, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2s3nwdf2

“Lower Manhattan, New York City, as viewed from Newport, Jersey City,” by King of Hearts, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/43tpkcb2

“Ursula Le Guin,” taken by Marian Wood Kolisch, 1995, restored by Adam Cuerden, CC BY-SA 2.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/ys4ypd95

“Occupy Wall Street Crowd,” by David Shankbone, 2011, CC BY 3.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/25fmcr7m

“Homeless encampment in Downtown Los Angeles over the freeway,” by Levi Clancy, 2021, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/bddyhfpr

“Phoenix AZ- CASS fenced yard for homeless on campus,” by Thayne Tuason, 2020, CC BY 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2uk7spke

“Homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles — an unhoused person sleeps on the sidewalk,” Levi Clancy, 2022, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/3ekjm282

“Phoenix AZ- CASS inside sitting room with spacing for COVID,” Thuane Tuason, 2020, CC BY 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/4u7kx3fd

A homeless derelict scrounges for returnable bottles in Buffalo, NY, by Andre Carrotflower, 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/2mcb9wex
“Applicants for surplus food stamp grants near Bakersfield, CA, by Dorothy Lange, national Archives, 1940, public domain, accessed via: https://tinyurl.com/yckct8t7

Press enter or click to view image in full size

Music

“Memories Collide” by Lotus

“Jupiter Aurora” by David Celeste

“Fictions” by Harbours & Oceans

“Douze” by Ben Elson

“Luxx” by Out To The World

“Oceanic” by Current Clouds

“Tree of Life” by Broad Sky

“Quietly Tense” by Marten Moses

“Orbit” by Van Sandano

“Cloudbursts” by David Celeste

“Boundless Things” by Elin Piel

“Equilibrium” by Static Glow Sounds

“Particle Emission” by Silver Maple

“Are We Forever” by Ave Air

“Ceres” by Lennon Hutton

“Vacancy” by WHENISEEYOUISEEMYSELF

“Thrive” by David Edward

--

--

Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan
Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan

Written by Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan

Filmmaker, Photographer, &, Armchair Anthropologist. Lover of books, languages, science & extinct nations. Creator of Trekspertise & The Wikisurfer podcast.