American Society and the Great Depression. Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928.

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American Society and the Great Depression

Transcript of American Society and the Great Depression. Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928.

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American Society and the Great Depression

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Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928

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City worker hands out sandwiches to unemployed, Cleveland, 1930

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Unemployed demand work outside City Hall, Cleveland, 1930

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Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

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Gilded Age Horatio Alger novels

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Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

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Pulp fiction artist John Newton Howitt, “River of Pain,” 1933

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Men lined up outside employment offices, Cincinnati, 1933

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Bread line

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Mexican Americans wait to leave Los Angeles to head back to Mexico, 1932

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Homeless migrant family saying grace Oklahoma

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Christmas dinner, ca. 1935

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“Blame Game,” Life, 1932

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President Herbert Hoover (R), el. 1929

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Outside homeless encampment, 1932

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“Hooverville” shantytown outside Seattle, Washington

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“Hooverville” in Central Park, New York City

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California refugee camp, ca. 1937

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