Great Depression

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Great Depression

• 21H.102October 17, 2005

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Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
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Hoover campaign poster, 1928
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Wall Street, Oct. 24, 1929
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100 Will Buy This Car
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(No Transcript)
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Walker Evans, Main Street of County Seat,
Alabama, 1936
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Evans, West Virginia Living Room, 1935
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Evans, Bedroom, Burrough Family Cabin, Hale
County, Alabama, 1936
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Evans, Burrough Family Cabin, Hale County,
Alabama, 1936
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Evans, Interior III
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Evans, Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania, 1936
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Bank run, American Union Bank of New York City,
August 5, 1931
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Bank run, Bank of the United States, 1930
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(No Transcript)
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Unemployment rate
1920 1925 1930 1935
1940
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Relief line, 1930
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Breadline, Chicago
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Breadline (for 1-cent restaurant)
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Dorothea Lange, The White Angel Breadline, San
Francisco, 1933
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Hooverville, New York City, Central Park, 1930
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Hooverville, NYC (detail)
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Hooverville, Seattle, 1933
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Of Course We Can Do It! (1931)
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Bank failure cartoon,Chicago Tribune, 1931
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Isaac Soyer, Employment Agency, 1937
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FDR campaigning, 1930
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FDR campaigning, West Virginia, 1932
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Electoral map, 1928
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Electoral map, 1932
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FDR campaigning, Georgia, 1933
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FDR, Fireside chat
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FDR Hoover, The New Yorker cover, 1933
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Number of radio stations, 1921-1939
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Radio station locations, 1938
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
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Eleanor Roosevelt at a soup kitchen
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NRA poster, Cooperation
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NRA, Human Eagle, 1933 (8,000 San
Francisco schoolchildren)
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NRA quilt
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Dust Bowl
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Dust storm, Spearman, TexasAugust 14, 1935
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Dorothea Lange, Mechanized Farm, 1938
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936
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Evans, Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Family
(Fields), 1936
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Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae
Burroughs), 1936
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Black cotton tenant farmer, Arkansas, 1938
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Cotton pickers, 1935
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Black tenants, Missouri, 1935
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Resettlement Administration, Years of Dust,
1937
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TVA
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REA poster, 1937
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CIO poster (quoting FDR)
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CCC poster, A Young Man's Opportunity"
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CCC poster, "We Can Take It"
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CCC workers
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Number of striking workers, 1927-1960
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Cotton strike, 1933
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UAW poster
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GM sit-in, 1937
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Nut shop sit-in, Detroit, March 1937
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Workers victory, Aliquippa, PA, 1937 (union
demonstration of steelworkers)
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Huey Long (1893-1935)
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Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins inspecting the
Golden Gate Bridge, 1930s
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(No Transcript)
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WPA, Bronx bridge
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WPA mural art, Construction of a Dam (by
William Gropper)
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Federal Theater Project,One-Third of a Nation,
1938
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Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, Easter
Sunday, 1939
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Margaret Bourke-White,The Louisville Flood,
1937
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Mississippi town Negro Street, 1936
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The black vote, 1936