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Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition 'Index of American Design' at Marshall Field and Co., 4th floor, showing an 18th ce...
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition 'Index of American Design' at Marshall Field and Co., 4th floor, showing an 18th century sailor using a sextant. silkscree, 1937
Wall Street is virtually deserted in front of the US Sub-treasury building, following Governor Herbert Lehman's proclamation ...
Wall Street is virtually deserted in front of the US Sub-treasury building, following Governor Herbert Lehman's proclamation that all banking transactions in the state are being suspended for two days. March 4, 1933.
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. Miles Sweeney, the CIO strike leader at the Hershey Chocolate Plant, is ejected...
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. Miles Sweeney, the CIO strike leader at the Hershey Chocolate Plant, is ejected by a mob of non-striking workers and local farmers. April 7, 1937.
Hunger marchers leave the capital. They traveled to Washington DC from across the country, in Fall 1932 to protest and presen...
Hunger marchers leave the capital. They traveled to Washington DC from across the country, in Fall 1932 to protest and present their petitions to the presiding officers of the House and Senate. Dec. 7, 1932.
Gang labor of Mexicans and white Americans on a large carrot truck farm in California's Imperial Valley. Because of surplus w...
Gang labor of Mexicans and white Americans on a large carrot truck farm in California's Imperial Valley. Because of surplus workers during the Great Depression with these workers made only one dollar a day. February 1939 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Municipal Lodging House Thanksgiving dinner. The hungry and destitute of New York City eat their free thanksgiving dinner acc...
Municipal Lodging House Thanksgiving dinner. The hungry and destitute of New York City eat their free thanksgiving dinner accompanied by a brass band. Nov. 28, 1932.
Bonus Army Veterans protest the adjournment of Congress before the Senate took action of the Bonus Bill. The House of Represe...
Bonus Army Veterans protest the adjournment of Congress before the Senate took action of the Bonus Bill. The House of Representatives passed the bill on June 15, 1932. July 5, 1932.
Chicago homeless man on Thanksgiving, 1952. He can't afford the fancy 75-cent special posted on the window of a West Madison ...
Chicago homeless man on Thanksgiving, 1952. He can't afford the fancy 75-cent special posted on the window of a West Madison Street café, and will settle for the 20-cent bowl of chili instead.
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting migrant workers in at the FSA Farmersville Camp in California. She praised New Deal campaign effor...
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting migrant workers in at the FSA Farmersville Camp in California. She praised New Deal campaign efforts to rehabilitate Dust Bowl refugees, but said general conditions described in Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' weren't exaggerated. April 2, 1940.
Ku Klux Klansmen warn Great Depression era Hunger Marchers. Howard E. Bitting (left) grand Cyclops, and J.L. Raskin, Grand Dr...
Ku Klux Klansmen warn Great Depression era Hunger Marchers. Howard E. Bitting (left) grand Cyclops, and J.L. Raskin, Grand Dragon of the State of Virginia, held a mass rally in Arlington, Va. They pledged to keeping Hunger Marchers out of Washington, DC, if they marched by way of Virginia. Dec. 12, 1932.
Two men at the control panel of the Chickamauga Dam are dwarfed by the large scale of the generator hall. 1940.
The bulldozed and smoking remains of the Bonus Army Encampment at Anacostia Flats in Washington, DC. July 29, 1932.
Chicago teachers were lined up for blocks on Washington Street to receive seven months back pay. Payment of $26,000,000 in ba...
Chicago teachers were lined up for blocks on Washington Street to receive seven months back pay. Payment of $26,000,000 in back salaries was made possible by a Federal loan. Aug 27, 1934.
Mexican-American mother and child in California during the Great Depression. June 1935 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
700 Hunger Marchers in trucks bound for Washington, D.C. Women marchers see them off with the labor carol, 'Solidarity Foreve...
700 Hunger Marchers in trucks bound for Washington, D.C. Women marchers see them off with the labor carol, 'Solidarity Forever.' Nov. 30, 1932.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Statue of Great Depression bread line, Washington, DC, USA
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. CIO 'sit-down strikers' were beaten by a mob of non-striking workers and local ...
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. CIO 'sit-down strikers' were beaten by a mob of non-striking workers and local farmers. The farmers were angry about loosing the market for 800,000 gallons of milk each day the strike continued. April 7, 1937.
Side profile of five men working in the stock exchange during the Great Depression, New York Stock Exchange, New York City, N...
Side profile of five men working in the stock exchange during the Great Depression, New York Stock Exchange, New York City, New York, USA, 1932
10,000 Communists in New York City's Union Square. During the rally to mark the 'International Day of Struggle Against Imperi...
10,000 Communists in New York City's Union Square. During the rally to mark the 'International Day of Struggle Against Imperialistic War', speakers attacked President Herbert Hoover for his suppression of the Bonus Army in Washington, DC. August 1, 1932.
Striking women employees of Woolworth's demand a 40 hour work week in New York City , 1937.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Statue of couple during Great Depression, Washington, DC, USA
Demonstration of hundreds of unemployed in Kansas City, Missouri. The march was organized by the Kansas City Unemployment Cou...
Demonstration of hundreds of unemployed in Kansas City, Missouri. The march was organized by the Kansas City Unemployment Council, a group of leftist workers. Aug. 1, 1932.
Bodies of Depression era Mid-western bandits, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in a Louisiana Morgue. May 1934.
Leaders of the War Veterans Bonus Army. A.F. Taylor (left) is the Commander-in-Chief, and W.C. Cox is his assistant. May 28, ...
Leaders of the War Veterans Bonus Army. A.F. Taylor (left) is the Commander-in-Chief, and W.C. Cox is his assistant. May 28, 1932.
Hunger Marchers demonstrate in Washington, DC. Their placards read: 'We Demand Unemployment Insurance', 'Free Milk for Worker...
Hunger Marchers demonstrate in Washington, DC. Their placards read: 'We Demand Unemployment Insurance', 'Free Milk for Workers children', 'Tax the Rich for Unemployment Relief'. Dec. 7, 1931.
Payroll money for Detroit Workers. Line up of workers eir paychecks at the newly opened the Chrysler Emergency Bank in Detroi...
Payroll money for Detroit Workers. Line up of workers eir paychecks at the newly opened the Chrysler Emergency Bank in Detroit. This bank was set up to receive emergency funds of $30 million workers while Michigan's 550 regular banks were closed during a statewide 'Bank Holiday' to prevent banks run and bank failures. Feb. 18, 1933.
Job seekers attend a job fair at the City University of New York in Harlem sponsored by US Representative Charles Rangel. The...
Job seekers attend a job fair at the City University of New York in Harlem sponsored by US Representative Charles Rangel. The job fair attracted hundreds of job seekers to the historic Shepard Hall at City College
Henry Mercer teaching school. Written on the blackboard is 'Black History. The Depression and the Thirties.' The People's Tem...
Henry Mercer teaching school. Written on the blackboard is 'Black History. The Depression and the Thirties.' The People's Temple Agricultural Project. Jonestown, Guyana. Nov. 1978.
Black Legion member in his night rider robes. They splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and were led by William Shepard in Ohio. ...
Black Legion member in his night rider robes. They splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and were led by William Shepard in Ohio. The groups were suspected of murders of alleged communists and socialists. They were known to have murdered a of black laborer Silas Coleman, and a Charles Poole, WPA worker. June 1936.
The Migratory and Itinerant Workers Union, the Hobos of America, held their annual convention in Altoona, Pa. J.E. Holtzinger...
The Migratory and Itinerant Workers Union, the Hobos of America, held their annual convention in Altoona, Pa. J.E. Holtzinger, of the Altoona Chamber of Commerce, greeting General Coxey(right), as Jeff Davis, Emperor of the Hobos (center), looks on. April 15, 1938.
First Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation office (HOLC) opens. HOLC was a New Deal agency established in 1933 under Presiden...
First Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation office (HOLC) opens. HOLC was a New Deal agency established in 1933 under President Franklin Roosevelt. Its purpose was to refinance home mortgages currently in default to prevent foreclosure. The Detroit branch as the first to open it's doors on July 13, 1933.
Striking farmers dump milk cans from a truck they have stopped to prevent delivery to market during the Great Depression. Mil...
Striking farmers dump milk cans from a truck they have stopped to prevent delivery to market during the Great Depression. Milk strikes failed because most farmers were owner-operators and would not voluntarily destroy their produce. Ca. 1930-36.
Workmen pose for a group portrait on the giant turbine in the powerhouse of the Bonneville Dam. Ca. 1937.
The jobless line up for a nickel. Twice a day, Father Gabriel, of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, hands out nickels to t...
The jobless line up for a nickel. Twice a day, Father Gabriel, of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, hands out nickels to the needy. The 31st Street church has helped the needy since 1920. New York City. Nov. 1930.
Part of the army of Hunger Marchers walk down Pennsylvania Avenue on Dec. 6, 1931. Police had allowed them the march into the...
Part of the army of Hunger Marchers walk down Pennsylvania Avenue on Dec. 6, 1931. Police had allowed them the march into the city of Washington, DC.
Payroll money for Detroit Workers. Police guard money arriving at the Chrysler Emergency Bank in Detroit. The Michigan Govern...
Payroll money for Detroit Workers. Police guard money arriving at the Chrysler Emergency Bank in Detroit. The Michigan Governor Comstock suspended regular banking for 10 days in Feb. 1933.
Los Angeles 'Hooverville'. Shanties at Alameda and 85th street house over 100 men, women and children. The settlement even ha...
Los Angeles 'Hooverville'. Shanties at Alameda and 85th street house over 100 men, women and children. The settlement even has a hospital. March 1932.
Buttresses of the Bonneville Dam under construction on the Columbia River. Planned in 1929, no action was taken toward constr...
Buttresses of the Bonneville Dam under construction on the Columbia River. Planned in 1929, no action was taken toward construction until the New Deal, when it was approved and begun in 1934. The dam provided employment during the Great Depression and power for the Pacific Northwest.
High angle view of a group of people and land vehicles on a road during the Great Depression, 1929
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art work from the 'Index of American Design,' at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Bea...
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art work from the 'Index of American Design,' at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., showing a weather vane in the shape of a Native American. Silkscreen, Russell W. West, artist 1938
Detroit workers line up at the new Chrysler Emergency Bank at tellers window. Mayor Frank Murphy and K.T.Keller, Vice Preside...
Detroit workers line up at the new Chrysler Emergency Bank at tellers window. Mayor Frank Murphy and K.T.Keller, Vice President of the Chrysler Motor Company look on. Feb. 15, 1833.
Encampment of the Bonus Army Marchers in Washington DC. The Anacostia flats 'Hoovertown' was built from materials scavenged f...
Encampment of the Bonus Army Marchers in Washington DC. The Anacostia flats 'Hoovertown' was built from materials scavenged from a nearby rubbish dump. The veterans built sanitation facilities, and held daily parades. All residents were required to register and prove they had been honorably discharged. June 11, 1932.
Bonus Army begins its daily drill. Walter W. Waters, the Commander of the Anacostia Flats encampment, directs military drill ...
Bonus Army begins its daily drill. Walter W. Waters, the Commander of the Anacostia Flats encampment, directs military drill and exercise. Note the segregation of the African American from the White soldiers in the formation. July 2, 1932.
Bonus Army entrepreneur. African American veteran from Detroit, Charles Wood, opened a store in Bonus City. His funny signs e...
Bonus Army entrepreneur. African American veteran from Detroit, Charles Wood, opened a store in Bonus City. His funny signs enlivened his tattered salvaged inventory. Fellow veteran Anthony Parmigini bought a pair of shoes. June 16, 1932.
20,000 unemployed demonstrate in Chicago's Grant Park. Protest signs read, 'Fight against foreclosure of small homes,' 'We De...
20,000 unemployed demonstrate in Chicago's Grant Park. Protest signs read, 'Fight against foreclosure of small homes,' 'We Demand Cash Relief', and 'Vote Communist Nov. 8.' Oct. 31, 1932.
Bonus Army protesting on the steps of the Senate Wing of the Capitol. 10,000 marched against the adjournment of Congress befo...
Bonus Army protesting on the steps of the Senate Wing of the Capitol. 10,000 marched against the adjournment of Congress before the Senate voted on the Bonus Bill. July 5, 1932.
The comfortable living room of the home of a West Virginia coal miner and his wife, features a radio and electric lights, all...
The comfortable living room of the home of a West Virginia coal miner and his wife, features a radio and electric lights, allowing for pleasant evenings in 1938, during the Great Depression.
Job seekers attend a job fair at the City University of New York in Harlem sponsored by US Representative Charles Rangel. The...
Job seekers attend a job fair at the City University of New York in Harlem sponsored by US Representative Charles Rangel. The job fair attracted hundreds of job seekers to the historic Shepard Hall at City College
Bonus Marcher's encampment along Pennsylvania Avenue, of a World War I veteran, his wife and seven children. July 1932.
Crowds in the lobby of new bank in Detroit. New National Bank opened in Detroit, formed by capital subscribed by General Moto...
Crowds in the lobby of new bank in Detroit. New National Bank opened in Detroit, formed by capital subscribed by General Motors Corp and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It replaced Michigan's two largest banks after the 1933 Bank Holiday. March 34, 1933.
World War I veterans boarding a bus taking them from New York City's Battery to Fort Slocum, about 40 miles away for dollar-a...
World War I veterans boarding a bus taking them from New York City's Battery to Fort Slocum, about 40 miles away for dollar-a-day jobs at government's reforestation camp. Photo taken in 1933, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, when many former businessmen worked in their suits because they could not afford work clothes.
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. Mob of non-striking workers and local farmers allowing some of the 600 striking...
Strike against the Hershey Chocolate Company. Mob of non-striking workers and local farmers allowing some of the 600 striking workers leave the factory peacefully with their arms raised. More belligerent strikers were ejected by the mob, with 25 injured, some of which were hospitalized. April 7, 1937.
Family of nine from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car on road between Phoenix and Yuma, Arizona, USA May 1937 ...
Family of nine from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car on road between Phoenix and Yuma, Arizona, USA May 1937 Photographed by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration
Nipomo, California: 1936. Florence Thompson, age 32, nursing one of her children at a peapickers camp.
Hungry man with his meal of bread and soup at a New York City soup kitchen during the Great Depression. His fedora and now ra...
Hungry man with his meal of bread and soup at a New York City soup kitchen during the Great Depression. His fedora and now ragged sports jacket indicate his past employment. 1930s.
Poster for WPA exhibition of 'Index of American Design' at the Chicago Historical Society. Erel Osborn, artist. Silkscreen, 1...
Poster for WPA exhibition of 'Index of American Design' at the Chicago Historical Society. Erel Osborn, artist. Silkscreen, 1941
President Hoover speaks at the White House conference for assistance to the unemployed. National Citizens Committee of the We...
President Hoover speaks at the White House conference for assistance to the unemployed. National Citizens Committee of the Welfare and Relief Mobilization, was private organization. On platform behind the Hoover were the President of AT&T, Mrs. Hoover, Sec. of Commerce, and the Red Cross Head, Sept, 15, 1932.
Walter W. Waters, speaks to Bonus Army. On July 16, 1932, Veterans continued to protest the adjournment of Congress. Other ve...
Walter W. Waters, speaks to Bonus Army. On July 16, 1932, Veterans continued to protest the adjournment of Congress. Other vets attempted to break through police lines to protest inside.
Labor union members protesting Prohibition in Newark New Jersey carrying signs reading 'We want beer.' October 1931.
Smoking remains of the Bonus Army Encampment at Anacostia Flats in Washington, D.C. July 29, 1932.
Crowds in the lobby of a Detroit Bank. New National Bank opened in Detroit, formed by Capital Subscribed by General Motors Co...
Crowds in the lobby of a Detroit Bank. New National Bank opened in Detroit, formed by Capital Subscribed by General Motors Corp and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It replaced Michigan's two largest banks after the 1933 Bank Holiday. March 4, 1933.
Bonus Marchers at their Anacostia Flats encampment. Congressman Wright Patman of Texas, champion of the Bonus Vets and author...
Bonus Marchers at their Anacostia Flats encampment. Congressman Wright Patman of Texas, champion of the Bonus Vets and author of the Bonus Bill that passed in the House, speaks to the Bonus Marchers on June 16, 1932.
St. Louis Bonus Veterans encampment in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. One ingenuous shelter is thatched with hay and has a swanky t...
St. Louis Bonus Veterans encampment in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. One ingenuous shelter is thatched with hay and has a swanky tent entrance. Aug. 3, 1932.
Bonus Army protesting on the steps of the Senate Wing of the Capitol. 10,000 marched against the adjournment of Congress befo...
Bonus Army protesting on the steps of the Senate Wing of the Capitol. 10,000 marched against the adjournment of Congress before the Senate voted on the Bonus Bill. July 5, 1932.
Hunger Marchers breakfast just outside Washington, D.C. On December 4, 1932, the marchers were met by 1,200 policemen armed w...
Hunger Marchers breakfast just outside Washington, D.C. On December 4, 1932, the marchers were met by 1,200 policemen armed with sawed-off shotguns and submachine guns to prevent them from entering the Capital. On Dec. 6, 1932 they were allowed to march to the Capitol.
1400 Hunger Marchers arrive in Washington, DC. Their placards read, 'We American Workers Refuse to Starve', and 'Not a Cent f...
1400 Hunger Marchers arrive in Washington, DC. Their placards read, 'We American Workers Refuse to Starve', and 'Not a Cent for War. All Funds to the Unemployed'. Dec. 6, 1931.
200 Quit the Bonus Army. The Federal Government offered loans to Veterans for transportation home and food on the way. Men ap...
200 Quit the Bonus Army. The Federal Government offered loans to Veterans for transportation home and food on the way. Men applied for their loans at the sign reading, 'Apply Here for B.E.F. (Bonus Expeditionary Force) Railroad Tickets. Veterans Administration.' July 9, 1932.
Chicago banker, Robert Bain arraigned on bank fraud charges growing out of the June 1931 failure of his bank and the loss of ...
Chicago banker, Robert Bain arraigned on bank fraud charges growing out of the June 1931 failure of his bank and the loss of $13 million in depositors assets. With his sons John and Robert and son-in-law Merle Fisher, he purchased real estate with a loan from the bank, and then sold it back to the bank at inflated prices. Feb. 24, 1932.
Breadline for the needy in New York City. Representative Peter Sirovich (left) and Father William Normen distribute loaves of...
Breadline for the needy in New York City. Representative Peter Sirovich (left) and Father William Normen distribute loaves of bread at St. Peter's Mission. Ca. Oct. 28, 1930.
Bonus Army Veterans battle with Washington DC police. Police were ordered to evict the men but required help from the Army to...
Bonus Army Veterans battle with Washington DC police. Police were ordered to evict the men but required help from the Army to complete the operation. July 28, 1932.
10,000 unemployed Hunger Marchers to the jammed the streets near the Capitol on Jan. 7, 1932. This first mass Hunger March wa...
10,000 unemployed Hunger Marchers to the jammed the streets near the Capitol on Jan. 7, 1932. This first mass Hunger March was initially organized by the Communist Part of American, but the participants came from across the political spectrum.
Gas Masked cavalry on Pennsylvania Avenue reinforce Washington DC police. Bonus Army veterans resisted police evictions from ...
Gas Masked cavalry on Pennsylvania Avenue reinforce Washington DC police. Bonus Army veterans resisted police evictions from their shanty town on Anacostia Flats. The troops would use tear gas against the veterans in their camp. July 28, 1932.
Wounded and decorated Veterans at Bonus Army Convention. They are among 1,200 from the Bonus Camp at Ft. Hunt, Virginia atten...
Wounded and decorated Veterans at Bonus Army Convention. They are among 1,200 from the Bonus Camp at Ft. Hunt, Virginia attending the Convention in Washington, D.C. May 16, 1933.
Defense! Long Island women: Home defense day. Poster announcing activities related to home defense held at Adelphi College, G...
Defense! Long Island women: Home defense day. Poster announcing activities related to home defense held at Adelphi College, Garden City, New York, showing figure of Liberty standing before American flag. Silkscreen, 1941
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of drawings from the Index of American Design, showing a weather vane in the shape ...
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of drawings from the Index of American Design, showing a weather vane in the shape of a Native American. Silkscreen, 1938
Wall Street on March 10, 1933 during the New Deal 'Bank Holiday'. Usually crowded, the streets are relatively empty, followin...
Wall Street on March 10, 1933 during the New Deal 'Bank Holiday'. Usually crowded, the streets are relatively empty, following the closing of banks and the stock brokerage houses. Trinity Church is in the background.
Breadline for the needy, probably in New York City. A Priest hands out coins. Ca. Nov 4, 1930.
Detroit businessmen seeking cash to carry on business at the Post Office during the bank holiday. Michigan Governor William C...
Detroit businessmen seeking cash to carry on business at the Post Office during the bank holiday. Michigan Governor William Comstock declared a bank moratorium to preserve the assets of small depositors of one large bank. Five hundred and forty banks were affected by the order. Feb. 15, 1933
FBI agents honed their gun skills by target practice from speeding cars in order to keep up with the motorized Depression ear...
FBI agents honed their gun skills by target practice from speeding cars in order to keep up with the motorized Depression ear bandits infesting the Mid-West. Ca. 1935.
Breadline in Los Angeles serving soup and bread. The Spanish Colonial church, Neustra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles, feeds 7...
Breadline in Los Angeles serving soup and bread. The Spanish Colonial church, Neustra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles, feeds 700 unemployed on the patio of the old church. August 1931.
WPA Worker and Wife Webber Falls Oklahoma USA June 1939 Photographed by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration
Willa Cather when she began her last novel, SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL. During the Great Depression, her work was seen as da...
Willa Cather when she began her last novel, SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL. During the Great Depression, her work was seen as dated and from another era by many critics. Photo by Ensminger, ca. 1937.
Oakland, California: c. 1935. Children at the Prescott School get a morning inspection as part of the Emergency Education Pro...
Oakland, California: c. 1935. Children at the Prescott School get a morning inspection as part of the Emergency Education Program under the Public Works Adminstration. The PWA was headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, under the Roosevelt administration.
New York Stock Exchange Building. Broad Street at Wall Street. Financial District, Downtown Manhattan, New York, New York. US...
New York Stock Exchange Building. Broad Street at Wall Street. Financial District, Downtown Manhattan, New York, New York. USA
Statue of Great Depression bread line, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC, USA
Bonus Army parade in Washington DC. Members of 'The Rank and File Group' march on July 15, 1932.
Statue of Great Depression bread line, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC, USA
Bonus Army protest at the Library of Congress. Members of 'The Rank and File Group', a left wing group display a many clear s...
Bonus Army protest at the Library of Congress. Members of 'The Rank and File Group', a left wing group display a many clear signs and banners. July 15, 1932.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Statue of Great Depression bread line, Washington, DC, USA
Washington D.C. Police arrest a man carrying child as others look on during a Depression era protest of unemployed. 1933.
Textile workers displaying picket signs pinned on their backs during Labor Day demonstration in Gastonia, N.C. 1934.
Main Street of Greensboro, county seat of Hale County, Alabama. Published in the book, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'. photog...
Main Street of Greensboro, county seat of Hale County, Alabama. Published in the book, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'. photograph by Walker Evans, July, 1936.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Statue of Great Depression bread line, Washington, DC, USA
Bonus Army. An aerial view of Bonus City, at Fort Hunt, Virginia. When the Bonus Army returned for a second attempt to get th...
Bonus Army. An aerial view of Bonus City, at Fort Hunt, Virginia. When the Bonus Army returned for a second attempt to get their early bonuses, the government erected 846 tents to house them and provided food. May 11, 1933.
Factory windows bricked up for conversion to a warehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the Great Depression. 1939.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits a Camp Tera for unemployed women near Bear Mountain, NY. The camp, inspired by the CCC ca...
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits a Camp Tera for unemployed women near Bear Mountain, NY. The camp, inspired by the CCC camps for men, provided recreation and vocational training. June 18, 1933.
Harold Hickerson demands Bonus payment. Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, listens as Bonus Vets Spokesman read a petiti...
Harold Hickerson demands Bonus payment. Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, listens as Bonus Vets Spokesman read a petition demanding early bonus payment. Feb. 14, 1932.
Bonus Veterans poor living conditions. Two men from Detroit sleep in their primitive beds in the Anacostia Flats encampment. ...
Bonus Veterans poor living conditions. Two men from Detroit sleep in their primitive beds in the Anacostia Flats encampment. An auto convertible top serves as a roof and the men sleep on straw. June 20, 1932.
President Hoover speaks at the White House conference for assistance to the unemployed. National Citizens Committee of the We...
President Hoover speaks at the White House conference for assistance to the unemployed. National Citizens Committee of the Welfare and Relief Mobilization, was private organization. On platform behind the Hoover were the President of AT&T, Mrs. Hoover, Sec. of Commerce, and the Red Cross Head, Sept, 15, 1932.
Five thousand school teachers demonstrate in downtown Chicago. In the Great Depression, they worked for months without pay, a...
Five thousand school teachers demonstrate in downtown Chicago. In the Great Depression, they worked for months without pay, and protested delays in the State Legislature to relieve their plight. April 21, 1934.
Capital and Labor leaders leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt From left to right:; A.A. Berle...
Capital and Labor leaders leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt From left to right:; A.A. Berle, former Brain Truster of the New Deal, Philip Murray, C.I.O. leader, John L. Lewis, C.I.O. chief, Owen D. Young, head of the General Electric Co. and Thomas W. Lamont, partner of J.P. Morgan. January 14, 1938.
Statue of Great Depression bread line, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC, USA
Bonus Army protests at the Capitol. 'Demand Congress Enact Relief Before Adjournment' reads one sign of Bonus Army Veterans. ...
Bonus Army protests at the Capitol. 'Demand Congress Enact Relief Before Adjournment' reads one sign of Bonus Army Veterans. July 2, 1932.
Hobo, Lou Ambers, cooking over a campfire with a tin can on a stick, during the Great Depression. 1935.
President Lyndon Johnson in conversation the Tom Fletcher family of Inez, Kentucky. The Fletcher family of 8 children earned ...
President Lyndon Johnson in conversation the Tom Fletcher family of Inez, Kentucky. The Fletcher family of 8 children earned only $400 last year. Fletcher is an unemployed saw mill worker. April 24, 1964.
Chicago, Illinois: September 17, 1930 What appeared to be a race riot on the South Side of Chicago turned out to be crowd of ...
Chicago, Illinois: September 17, 1930 What appeared to be a race riot on the South Side of Chicago turned out to be crowd of unemployed Negroes who took the tools away from the Mexicans working on the street car tracks so that they might have the work.
African American children playing baseball in an alley. The Washington DC slum, the London Court houses, had outhouses rather...
African American children playing baseball in an alley. The Washington DC slum, the London Court houses, had outhouses rather than indoor toilets. Ca. 1933-1940.
Statue of Great Depression bread line, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC, USA
Unemployed New Yorkers demonstrate with signs in front of Emergency Relief Building in 1935. Signs demand clothing, pay at un...
Unemployed New Yorkers demonstrate with signs in front of Emergency Relief Building in 1935. Signs demand clothing, pay at union wages, and jobs for youths.
Pipeline of California's All-American Canal carries water to the Imperial Valley from the Colorado River fed reservoir behind...
Pipeline of California's All-American Canal carries water to the Imperial Valley from the Colorado River fed reservoir behind the Imperial Dam. The irrigation system was a Public Works Projects of the 1930's New Deal.
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