Lange created iconic gelatin silver documentary photographs during the Great Depression capturing the economic desperation of unemployed and displaced American workers with the same melancholic social realism visible in Hine's relief check documentation. Her work for the Farm Security Administration shares the same commitment to humanizing federal relief subjects and bearing witness to systemic poverty.

Evans produced stark monochrome documentary photographs of impoverished American workers and mining communities during the 1930s Depression era with the same unflinching historical clarity and social realist intent found in this Hine photograph. His studies of rural poverty and working class subjects share the same archival documentary quality and economic crisis subject matter.

Shahn worked as both a photographer and painter documenting unemployed miners and Depression era American workers receiving government assistance with the same social realist perspective and focus on federal relief programs seen in this Hine image. His documentary photographs from Scott's Run and similar Appalachian mining communities directly parallel this specific subject matter and historical moment.