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A Photographic Essay of the Great Depression. All images and photographs from the Library of Congress http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html and The Indiana Historical Society http://opac.indianahistory.org unless otherwise noted. United States History – Eleventh Grade.
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A Photographic Essay of the Great Depression All images and photographs from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html and The Indiana Historical Society http://opac.indianahistory.org unless otherwise noted. United States History – Eleventh Grade
Photos from http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/04/the-automobile-home-of-the-great-depression/ The Roaring 20’s roared away…..
No Work Hundreds of businesses close, leaving many projects unfinished.
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Migrant farm workers with no work Photographer Dorothea Lange took hundreds of Depression Era photos in many states. This woman is a pea-picker. She has just sold her car tires to buy food for her children. She is 36 years old.
Those who found work often lived in terrible conditions. Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running water, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus, and nobody will allow children in their homes--it's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."
Government programs begin with FDR WPA worker with sons WPA workers in Chicago
Housing Rehabilitation This is where a family was living. It was to be “rehabilitated” through a government program.
FDR’s Fireside Chats brought hope.“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”