Rare Color Photos Depict Life in the US During the Great Depression, 1939-1941
The Great Depression, a somber epoch in American history, is often characterized by …
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Heartbreaking Dust Bowl’s Photographs Taken by Dorothea Lange During the 1930s
The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used i…
A Saturday Afternoon in Hagerstown (Maryland) During the Great Depression, 1937
In October 1937, Farm Security Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein visited …
These Sad Photos Show Destitute Great Depression Families Waiting for Aid, 1937-1939
As the consequences of the Great Depression, unemployment, poverty, and the effects …
These Photographs Capture the American Struggle during The Great Depression, 1929-1940
Nobody could tell exactly when it began and nobody could predict when it would e…
Inside the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression in Photos, 1931-1940
Hooverville was the popular name attributed to shanty towns that sprung up throu…
The Story of the Iconic Migrant Mother Photograph From 1936
Dorothea Lange took this photograph in 1936, while employed by the U.S. governme…
“World’s Highest Standard of Living. There’s No Way Like the American Way”, 1937
In early January 1937, the swollen banks of the Ohio River flooded more than sev…
A Unknown Man During the Great Depression, 1932
In 1932-1933, at the worst point in the Great Depression years, unemployment rat…
Iconic Photo of a Man Job Hunting in the 1930s
During the Great Depression, millions of people were out of work across the Unit…
Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen during the Great Depression, 1931
Al Capone started one of the first soup kitchens. The kitchen employed a few peo…