Photos of Great Depression of America....

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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 after the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill (June 17), and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century.

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. In the mill village at the sugar mill. Jan. 1942. Photographer: Jack Delano.

Unemployed men vying for jobs

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just after the crash of 1929

Squatter's Camp, Route 70, Arkansas, October, 1935.Ben Shahn

Philipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California, 1935. Photographer:Dorothea Lange.

migrant mother  Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. August 1936. Photographer:Dorothea Lange.

Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California, February, 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Leland, Mississippi, in the Delta area, June 1937. Photographer: Dorothea lange.

Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photographer :Arthur Rothstein.

Drought refugees near Holtville, California. March 1937. Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Bud Fields and his family. Alabama. 1935 or 1936. Photographer:Walker Evans.

Man in the dust wind

'X' Mas dinner

Migrant worker

99 year old mother

Children playing

Migrant family

Hopeless children's

Migrant mother by Dorothea Lange

Image Sources: Digitalgallery , History1900 , English.illinois , Memory.loc.gov, Wikipedia