194 Free Photos of Great Depression

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Marchers in Camden, New Jersey demanding jobs during the Great Depression
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Pink flower a rainy day getting flowers
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The Great Depression in Oklahoma
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Sons of the Depression
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Farmer in despair over the depression in 1932. - NARA - 512819
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Migrant mother
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A WPA poster promoting New Deal Art programs.
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Make It Safe: A safety poster created by the Works Progress Administration.
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Farmers sawing wood for fuel in timber near Aledo, Illinois, November 1936.
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WPA poster, urging Americans to become better-informed citizens.
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Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 02-1931 - NARA - 541927
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Farmers sitting inside the sales ring of a livestock sales hall Ames, Iowa, November 1936
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Country school near Portsmouth, Ohio, 1942.
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A Works Progress Administration Poster for statewide Library Project 1937.
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Poster for Federal Music Project announcing free instruction in music, 1938.
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Southern U.S., Mississippi, 1939.
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Farmers in a shed at a country auction near Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, November 1936.
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Farmer's Indian wife
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Resettlement officers at opening of Berwyn Project, Maryland, Oct. 1935
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Wranglers: Stockyard attendants herding hogs into pens at stockyards, Aledo, Illinois, November 1936.
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Garments hanging near telephone in Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa, December 1936.
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Farmers sawing wood for fuel in timber near Aledo, Illinois, November 1936.
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Gather Round: Demonstration of unemployed people in Columbus, Kansas, May 1936.
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Waiting for relief checks during Great depression
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Adrift: Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton. June 1935.
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The House of Orange: A second-hand plumbing store in Brockton, Massachusetts December 1940.
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Misfortune's Boulevard: Part of Shantytown in Spencer, Iowa. December 1935.
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Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 02-1931 - NARA - 541927
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Bust: A Closed bank in Haverhill, Iowa. September 1939.
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Boys sitting on truck parked at the Farm Security Administraton labor camp. Robstown, Texas, 1941.
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Laid Off: The interview for unemployment compensation. San Francisco, California 1938.
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Crowd eating a free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. October 1940.
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Harvesting oats in southeastern Georgia. April 1940.
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Rise & Fall: Abandoned factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1939.
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Over & Under: The underpass and apartment houses, Greenbelt, Maryland, February 1938.
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Free Air: Gas station in Kern County, California, November 1938.
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Top of the Heap: Pulpwood pile in Groveton, New Hampshire. February 1936.
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Streamline Moderne: Completed house at Greenbelt, Maryland. September 1937
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The Good Fight: Demonstration of unemployed people. Columbus, Kansas. May 1936.
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Main street in Herrin, Illinois. January 1939.
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Help Us Win: Strike pickets in New York City. December 1937.
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Row of men at the New York City docks out of work during the depression, 1934 - NARA - 518288
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Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 02-1931 - NARA - 541927 (cropped)
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Eye of the Beholder: Slums in Camden, New Jersey with the city hall in distance. October 1938.
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Man in the Shadows: Interior of railroad station in Hagerstown, Maryland. October 1937.
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Call for Beer: Storefront in Altheimer, Arkansas, October 1938.
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Poverty: "Damaged Child," Oklahoma City, OK, USA, 1936.
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"Roofing"
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War & Remembrance: Main street in Herrin, Illinois. January 1939.
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Open-air Barber: On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. February 1939.
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Hard Times: Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road. Imperial Valley, California, Spring 1937.
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Wrath: Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas, March 1936.
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Sport Jackets & Cigarettes: Federal Resettlement Officials at Greenbelt, Maryland, October 1939.
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"Airplane Engine"
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"Cement Mixing"
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Dusty Road Blues: Outside Natchez, Mississippi August 1940.
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"Clifford Mozier..."
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Banquet setup
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"Barracks Foundations"
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"Subject A-327"
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"NYA welders"
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field - NARA - 532138
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Requiem for the American Dream: Unemployed men at the White Angel Breadline in San Francisco, Califorinia 1933.
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Hard Travelin': Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. May 1937.
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Wash Day: Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon at a Farm Security Administration relief housing camp in Robstown, Texas, 1942.
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"Metal troughs"
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"Mechanical Drafting"
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"Negro Barracks"
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Riding the Wasp
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Operating a lathe
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"Work experience in radio"
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"Machine Shop Class"
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"Barracks" Pt. 2
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"Earning while learning"
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Hard Scrabble: Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, October 1939.
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Other Side of the Tracks: Slums at Cinder Point between railroad and Illinois River, Peoria, Illinois. May 1938.
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Wall of Dreams: Room in which migratory agricultural workers sleep. Camden County, New Jersey October 1938.
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"A Negro youth welding"
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"Driveway for President Roosevelt"
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"Assembling an electric motor"
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"Resident Work Experience"
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"Sheet Metal Problem"
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Welcome Home: A family moving into Homesteads in Newport News, Virginia, December 1937.
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Soldiering On: A war veteran who sells pencils on the street. Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.
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Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown in this section and the people depend on outside truckers to bring it in. October 1940.
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One of a fleet of trucks owned by United Cooperative Society, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, January 1936.
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Starting Over: Drought refugees from South Dakota in Montana. July 1936.
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"Operating a metal shaper"
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"Barracks" Pt. 1
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"NYA youth and skilled worker"
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Caption for mathematical drafting class
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Corner Lunch: Townspeople discussing the severe winter on the street corner in center of town in Woodstock, Vermont, 1940.
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Fire & Ice: A long stairway in the mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1940.
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Far Bright Star: Son of an illiterate sharecropper. He wants a high school education. Near Earle, Arkansas. July 1936.
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"Roofing Barracks" Pt. 1
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"Roofing Barracks" Pt. 2
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