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

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1 American Society and the Great Depression

2 Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928

3 City worker hands out sandwiches to unemployed, Cleveland, 1930

4 Unemployed demand work outside City Hall, Cleveland, 1930

5 Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

6 Gilded Age Horatio Alger novels

7 Popular early 1930s Pulp Fiction

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

9 Men lined up outside employment offices, Cincinnati, 1933

10 Bread line

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

12 Homeless migrant family saying grace Oklahoma

13 Christmas dinner, ca. 1935

14 “Blame Game,” Life, 1932

15 President Herbert Hoover (R), el. 1929

16 Outside homeless encampment, 1932

17 “Hooverville” shantytown outside Seattle, Washington

18 “Hooverville” in Central Park, New York City

19 California refugee camp, ca. 1937

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