Great&DepressionPhotos …teachers.sheboygan.k12.wi.us/lvandeven/documents/Great...Caption Part of an impoverished family of nine fleeing from the Dust Bowl with all of their possessions.

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Caption Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. (Circa February 1936)



Caption "Runs on Banks": people waiting to try and get their money from the bank. (Circa 1930)



Caption “View of a dust storm Baca Co., Colorado, Easter Sunday 1935"; Photo by N.R. Stone (Circa April 1935)



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



Caption "Suppertime" for the westward migration. (Circa 1936)



Caption: School in Alabama. (Circa 1935)



Caption: The shack of a family forced to move from the place they were buying to this shack because of inability to pay three dollars monthly, which was the basis of the contract. Many homes in southern Illinois coal towns were built with money borrowed from building and loan associations. During the depression building and loan associations almost all went into bankruptcy. Their mortgages were sold for whatever they would bring, and the purchasers demolished houses by the hundreds in order to salvage the scrap lumber. The result is serious overcrowding and high rents in all the coal towns. A number of people can find no houses to rent, and are living in tents and shanties on the fringes of the town.



Caption: As homelessness increased, the shantytowns of makeshift shelters spread into the vacant lots of American cities. They frequently rose up right outside of most cities. Blaming an unresponsive president for their plight, the homeless mockingly refereed to these shantytowns as a Hoovervilles.



Caption: After the market crash in 1929 and the banking crisis, stores closed, factories stood idle, and millions of unemployed workers walked the streets looking for jobs. This frantic search for work was made worse for many when the Dust Bowl wiped out farms. “These unemployed are dead men,” wrote on observer, “They are ghosts that walk the streets.” Jobless Men Keep Going Credit: John E. Allen, Inc.



Caption: During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, men and women in Louisville, Kentucky, line up seeking food and clothing from a relief station, in front of a billboard proclaiming, "World's Highest Standard of Living." Margaret Bourke-White, photographer



Caption: Men's dormitory at night at the homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa (for unattached men). Unemployment is the primary cause of their being here. This unemployment has been the direct cause of broken homes, through divorce. Most of the men are willing to work if they could find it. Average age fifty-two. Most of the men are from the urban districts.

Lee, Russell, 1936, photographer.



Caption: Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley near Smithland, Iowa. (Circa 1935)



Caption Children of Oklahoma drought refugees near Bakersfield, California. (Circa June 1935)



Caption Everywhere the unemployed stood in the streets, unable to find jobs and wondering how they could feed their families. (Circa 1935)



Caption Farm foreclosure sale. (Circa 1933)



Caption Part of an impoverished family of nine fleeing from the Dust Bowl with all of their possessions. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, but has tuberculosis. They can’t afford medical care. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody". Lange, Dorothea, 1936 photographer.

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