A Photo Essay

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The Great Depression

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

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Depression "Runs on Banks" people milling about
outside of bank. (Circa 1933)
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Depression Unemployed The Unemployed Union
marchers south on Broadway Camden New Jersey.
(Circa 1935)
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Depression Breadlines long line of people
waiting to be fed New York City
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WPA unemployed shown at Volunteers of America
Soup Kitchen Washington, D.C. (Circa 1936)
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Depression Breadlines long line of people
waiting to be fed New York City (Circa
February 1932)
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Photograph of a woman washing clothes during the
Great Depression
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Farm Security Administration "Suppertime" for
the westward migration. (Circa 1936)
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Farm Security Administration Christmas dinner in
the home of Earl Pauley near Smithland, Iowa.
Photograph by Russell Lee,1936
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Farm Security Administration Family of coal
miner in West Virginia. (Circa 1935)
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Farm Security Administration. Fruit Store during
Great Depression(Circa 1935)
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Farm foreclosure sale. (Circa 1933)
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Farm Security Administration Homeless family,
tenant farmers in 1936.
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Farm Security Administration Arkansas squatter
for three years in California near Bakefield,
California. Photo by D. Lange. (Circa 1935)
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Farm Security Administration School in Alabama.
(Circa 1935)
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Children of rehabilitation clinic in Arkansas.
(Circa 1935)
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Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange March 1936 at
the pea pickers camp, Nipomo,CA
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Young Oklahoma mother age 18, penniless,
stranded in Imperial Valley, California. (Circa
March 1937)
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Dust Storms "One of South Dakota's Black
Blizzards, 1934"
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Dust Storms In 1934 and 1936 drought and dust
storms ravaged the great American plains and
added to the New Deal's relief burden.
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Farm Security Administration farmers whose
topsoil blew away joined the sod caravans of
"Okies" on Route 66 to California. (Circa 1935)
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Farm Security Administration migrants. (Circa
1935)
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Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees clearing
the land for soil conservation. (Circa 1934)
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Civilian Conservation Corps. Planting During the
Great Depression (Circa 1933)
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Songs were written about the times being tough

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFGswPFJYM5g

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Works Cited

• Lange, D. (1936). America's Stories from
  America's Libraries. Retrieved March 28, 2009,
  from The Power of Dorothea Lange's Pictures
  http//www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/lange/aa_lange_p
  ower_2_e.html
• Melzert. (2000). Driven from the Land The Story
  of the Dust Bowl. Terrytown, NY Benchmark Books.
• Nashi, D. (1998). Life During the Great
  Depression. San Diego Lucent Books, Inc.
• Rosenberg, J. (n.d.). About 20th Century
  History. Retrieved March 8, 2009, from
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Songs were written about the times being tough

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFGswPFJYM5g