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The Great Depression: Tell a Story

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Choose a photo from those shown below. If you click on the photo, it will take you to the source which may have more information about the photo.

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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. Migrant mother (1936)

(Library of Congress)

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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (1942 or 1943)

(Library of Congress)

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena's Island, S.C. (1939)

(Library of Congress)

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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (1940)

(Library of Congress)

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Girl who operates large farm with help of her sister and a rehabilitation loan. Coffey County, Kansas (1938)

(Library of Congress)

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Negro rehabilitation client started as poultry raiser through United States Resettlement Administration loan. Kansas (1936)

(Library of Congress)

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Children of John Mathews, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin (1937)

(Library of Congress)

Dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (1936)

(Library of Congress)

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The twins and small daughter of the Stromberg family. Gibbs City, Michigan (1937)

(Library of Congress)

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Untitled (1940)

(Library of Congress)

Between Bakersfield and Fresno, California. On the Freights. Mixed trio riding a freight. All in their twenties, all in hope of finding employment in the towns for which they were heading, all of them reticent about discussing their origin and their objective (1940)

(National Archives)

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