Aug 10, 2011

RARE PHOTO's - America's Great Depression in 1930

Here are some GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS of Daily Life during the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States.

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Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley, near Smithland, Iowa during the Great Depression, 1935.

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A march of unemployed men in Camden New Jersey

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A young boy in the Alabama countryside with eroded land behind him

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A migrant family looking for work in the pea fields of California

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An unemployed man in an old coat lying on a pier at the New York City docks

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People lined up outside of a bank

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An unemployed destitute man leaning against vacant store

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Migrants in their car

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A young Oklahoma mother, aged 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, Callifornia, March, 1937.

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Unemployed insured workers registering for jobs and filing benefit claims at a State employment office

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A homeless man during the Great Depression.

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Breadlines in New York

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Families on the road with all their possessions packed into their trucks

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Unemployed men looking for a job

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A covered wagon in a migratory carrot pullers' camp

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