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The Indiana Historical Societyhttp://opac.indianahistory.org

unless otherwise noted.

United States History – Eleventh Grade

A Photographic Essay of the Great Depression

The Roaring 20’s roared away…..

Photos from

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/04/the-automobile-home-of-the-great-depression

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No Work

Hundreds of businesses close, leaving many projects unfinished.

http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/image/jobless-men-keep-going-we-can-t-take-care-our-own

Walking

Standing

Riding the rails to nowhere

Desperation

No Food – Floods –Drought-Farms Fail

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.

No leadership

Dust Storms Destroy Crops

Still no leadership….

Desperation in the cities – Washington, D.C.

Life goes on – jazz in Chicago, street musicians in Harlem.

Still life is hard for families

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."

WPA worker with sons

Government programs begin with FDR

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.”