Document #1: Mother by Dorthea Langes

Document #2: The Depression from an International Perspective

Document #3: Hyperinflation

Document #4: Firewood Money A German woman feeding a stove with currency notes, which burn longer than the amount of firewood they can buy

Document #5: Breadline at McCauley Water Street Mission under Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Document #6: Song Lyrics "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931) They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread? Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,And I was the kid with the drum! Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime? Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Document #7: Stock Market Graph

Document #8: Jobless Men

Document #9: Free Way (1937) by Dorothea Lange

Document #10: Car for sale

Document #11: Getting a Job Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American Legion Employment Bureau in Los Angeles during the Great Depression

Document #12: Unemployment

Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 Document #13: Dust Bowl Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936

Document #14: Unemployment line Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee. June 1938. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Alternative take of Migrant Mother Dorthea Lange, 1936 Document #15: Migrant Mother Alternative take of Migrant Mother Dorthea Lange, 1936

Document #16 The Depression in Europe