Photos of the Great Depression

Classic Photo

•Taken from http://home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/Depression_2001_1.html

• Photograph by Dorothea Lang

Why can’t you give my dad a job?

Taken from Minnesota Historical Society http://shop.mnhs.org/pages.cfm?id=57

Living on the streets

Take from Think Quest Economic History Site

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005121/data/germany.htm

Hooverville

• Taken from Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm

• Also shown on National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.nps.gov/

Jobless Men unable to care for their families

Taken from Pensito Review http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/page/2/

USA Work Program

Taken from American Life Histories, manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940. Manuscript Division Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Homeless Beggar

Taken from Bergen County Technical Schools, Teaching American History Grant, Funded by U.S. Department of Education

http://www.bergen.org/ourstory/resources/great_depression/index.htm