A Photo Essay by Debbie Elliott RE 5130 Teaching The Language Arts Dr. Frye.

A Photo Essay

by Debbie ElliottRE 5130 Teaching The Language Arts

Dr. Frye

Depression: "Runs on Banks": people milling about outside of bank. (Circa 1933)

Depression: Unemployed: The Unemployed Union: marchers south on Broadway: Camden New Jersey. (Circa 1935)

Depression: Breadlines: long line of people waiting to be fed: New York City:

WPA: unemployed shown at Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen: Washington, D.C. (Circa 1936)

Depression: Breadlines: long line of people waiting to be fed: New York City: (Circa February 1932)

Photograph of a woman washing clothes during the Great Depression

Farm Security Administration: "Suppertime" for the westward migration. (Circa 1936)

Farm Security Administration: Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley near Smithland, Iowa. Photograph by Russell Lee,1936

Farm Security Administration: Family of coal miner in West Virginia. (Circa 1935)

Farm Security Administration. Fruit Store during Great Depression(Circa 1935)

Farm foreclosure sale. (Circa 1933)

Farm Security Administration: Homeless family, tenant farmers in 1936.

Farm Security Administration: Arkansas squatter for three years in California near Bakefield, California. Photo by D. Lange. (Circa 1935)

Farm Security Administration: School in Alabama. (Circa 1935)

Children of rehabilitation clinic in Arkansas. (Circa 1935)

“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange March 1936 at the pea pickers camp, Nipomo,CA

Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California. (Circa March 1937)

Dust Storms; "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934"

Dust Storms: In 1934 and 1936 drought and dust storms ravaged the great American plains and added to the New Deal's relief burden.

Farm Security Administration: farmers whose topsoil blew away joined the sod caravans of "Okies" on Route 66 to California. (Circa 1935)

Farm Security Administration: migrants. (Circa 1935)

Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees clearing the land for soil conservation. (Circa 1934)

Civilian Conservation Corps. Planting During the Great Depression (Circa 1933)

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