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The Great Depression

Explore the poignant images of the Great Depression, including the iconic "Migrant Mother" photo. Witness the struggles of migrant workers, Hoovervilles, and families seeking work during this tumultuous era.

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The Great Depression

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  1. The Great Depression A photo history

  2. Famous photo “Migrant Mother”The look on this woman’s face coined the popular phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”

  3. The depression hit almost EVERYONE

  4. Migrant workers with their 11 children in Oklahoma

  5. Hoovervilles – shanty towns for the homeless named after President Hoover

  6. Woman living in a shanty

  7. Men would wait in line for hours for food or the possibility of work

  8. Many depended on charities for food

  9. Most of the unemployed wanted JOBS, not charity

  10. Families would travel from place to place in search of work

  11. Family in search of work

  12. Son of a sharecropper in Chesnee, South Carolina

  13. Child of a day laborer – Ellis County, Texas

  14. Grandchild of a sharecropper – his father is in prison

  15. Mississippi sharecropper

  16. Peach picker – Muscella, Georgia

  17. Previously a farmer from Texas – now a migrant worker

  18. Pea pickers in California

  19. 13 year old sharecropper in Americus, Georgia

  20. Migrant Grandmother with sick baby in open field - Arizona

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