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A Photo Essay on

the Great
Depression
English I Honors
Police stand guard outside the entrance to New York's
closed World Exchange Bank, March 20, 1931. Not only
did bank failures wipe out people's savings, they also
undermined the ideology of thrift.
Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American Legion
Employment Bureau in Los Angeles
during the Great Depression.
Squatter's Camp, Route 70, Arkansas,
October, 1935.
Roadside stand near
Birmingham, Alabama, 1936.
Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma,
1936.
The drought that helped cripple agriculture in the Great
Depression was the worst in the climatological history of the
country. By 1934 it had dessicated the Great Plains, from
North Dakota to Texas, from the Mississippi River Valley to
the Rockies. Vast dust storms swept the region.
In one of the largest pea camps in
California. February, 1936.
The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother"
is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made
in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange
was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm
labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement
Administration.
Demonstration of unemployed.
Columbus, Kansas. May 1936.
A sharecropper's yard.
Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936.
Porch of a sharecropper's cabin.
Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936.
The marginal and oppressive economy of
sharecropping largely collapsed during the great
Depression.
Kitchen in house of Floyd Burroughs,
sharecropper, near
Moundville, Hale County, Alabama.
Summer 1936.
People living in miserable poverty,
Elm Grove, Oklahoma County,
Oklahoma.
August 1936.
Waiting for the semimonthly relief
checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley,
California.
Leland, Mississippi,
in the Delta area,
June 1937.
Part of the daily lineup outside the
State Employment Service Office.
Memphis, Tennessee. June 1938.
Young boys waiting in kitchen of city mission
for soup which is given out nightly. Dubuque,
Iowa. April 1940.
For millions, soup kitchens offered the only
food they would eat.
Durham, North Carolina, May 1940.
Upstairs bedroom of family on relief,
Chicago, Illinois. April 1941
Children at Hill House, Mississippi.
Sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is
much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both
have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in
tin can and tubs. This is typical of Negro dwellings. Log
build visible.
Through the back door is the corncrib.
Near Olive Hill, North Carolina.
An African-American maid.
Mississippi Delta children.
Plantation cotton cabin.
Mississippi Delta, near Vicksburg.
Tenant family
near Greensboro, Alabama.
Houses in Eutaw, Alabama.
Church near Paradis, Louisiana
Feet of children on a farm near
Greensboro, Alabama.
Greensboro, Alabama
Main street.
Greensboro, Alabama.
Miss Teal, nurse, brings hookworm
medicine to Lewis family, R.R. (Rural
Rehabilitation) clients. Coffee County,
Alabama.
Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family:
children have hookworm, mother has pellagra
and milk leg, according to nurse's report.
Father works on WPA (Work Projects
Administration).
Coffee County, Alabama.
This woman, wife of an ex-farmer now living on relief, had
pellagra in an advanced stage. She has had some treatment
and shown great improvement but there were still evidences
of mental disturbance. She was the mother of twelve
children. The child in her arms has malaria as have probably
the entire family. Jefferson, Texas.
Courtroom of the
old Monroe County Courthouse
Photo from the 1962 film based on
Harper Lee's novel

 Gregory Peck as
Atticus Finch
 Brock Peters as
Tom Robinson

“Why reasonable people go stark


raving mad when anything
involving a Negro comes up, is
something I don't pretend to
understand.” 
~Atticus, Chapter 9
The End

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