Images of the Great Depression

(Google Images)

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Banks failed and people loose all their savings.

 

 

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People gather as a farm fore-closes.

 

 

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Soup Line: Hungry people gather for food from soup kitchens.

 

 

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No job, no hope; many people with no work.

 

 

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Many people had no place to live or sleep.

 

 

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Credit: National Archives of Canada / C-13236

Sleeping quarters for the homeless during the Great Depression.

 

 

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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.

 

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Riding the rails was the preferred way to move from town to town.

 

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Music and dancing became important to people who had little else.

 

 

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Jazz became a recognized style of American music.

 

 

 

 

Click on the following links to see more information about the Great Depression.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GreatD1ep.asp

http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

 

Click on this link for more information on jazz.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html