Images of the Great Depression
(Google Images)
www.livinghistoryfarm.org/.../
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www.ecommcode2.com/.../ Banks failed and people loose all their savings.
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george.ednet.ns.ca/ People gather as a farm fore-closes.
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www.bergen.org/.../ Soup Line: Hungry people gather for food from soup kitchens.
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www.todaysteacher.com/.../ No job, no hope; many people with no work.
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www.the7thfire.com/ Many people had no place to live or sleep.
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ID #20903 Sleeping quarters for the homeless during the Great Depression.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
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www.railbookstore.com/.../ Riding the rails was the preferred way to move from town to town.
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www.sc.edu/.../ Music and dancing became important to people who had little else.
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www.abouttimemag.com/ Jazz became a recognized style of American music.
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Click on the following links to see more information about the Great Depression.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GreatD1ep.asp
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
Click on this link for more information on jazz.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html