American Society and the Great Depression. Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928.

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American Society and the Great Depression

Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928

City worker hands out sandwiches to unemployed, Cleveland, 1930

Unemployed demand work outside City Hall, Cleveland, 1930

Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

Gilded Age Horatio Alger novels

Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

Pulp fiction artist John Newton Howitt, “River of Pain,” 1933

Men lined up outside employment offices, Cincinnati, 1933

Bread line

Mexican Americans wait to leave Los Angeles to head back to Mexico, 1932

Homeless migrant family saying grace Oklahoma

Christmas dinner, ca. 1935

“Blame Game,” Life, 1932

President Herbert Hoover (R), el. 1929

Outside homeless encampment, 1932

“Hooverville” shantytown outside Seattle, Washington

“Hooverville” in Central Park, New York City

California refugee camp, ca. 1937