Great Depression in Pennsylvania

Wannamaker’s in Philly

Centre County• Within four years of the stock

market crash of 1929, national unemployment reached 25%, but in Pennsylvania it was a staggering 37% pushing 1.4 million people into joblessness and poverty.

• By the end of the Great Depression, Centre County lost a quarter of all its business establishments including four of its five laundries, it's only sporting goods store, and six ice cream parlors.

Coal Production

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Governor meets with miners

Southern Banks Closes Doors

Public Auction of Farm in York, PA

Newly Paved Road in 1936

Pittsburgh Courier

CCC

Pine Dam Construction

Mifflin County

Allegheny National Forest, 1935

Wyoming State Forest, 1933

WPA• From 1935 to 1943, Works Progress Administration workers built:• • 650,000 miles of roads• • 78,000 bridges• • 125,000 civilian and military buildings• • 800 airports (built, improved or enlarged)• • 700 miles of airport runway• Workers also were responsible for:• • 900 million hot lunches served to school children• • 1,500 nursery schools operated• • 225,000 musical concerts presented to 150 million people• • 475,000 art works 276 books and 701 pamphlets created

CCC Camps