All images and photographs from the Library of Congress and The Indiana Historical Society unless otherwise noted. United States History – Eleventh Grade

Photos from depression / depression /

Hundreds of businesses close, leaving many projects unfinished.

Photographer Dorothea Lange took hundreds of Depression Era photos in many states. This woman is a pea- picker. She has just sold her car tires to buy food for her children. She is 36 years old.

Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running water, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus, and nobody will allow children in their homes--it's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

WPA worker with sonsWPA workers in Chicago

This is where a family was living. It was to be “rehabilitated” through a government program.

FDR’s Fireside Chats brought hope. “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”