This document contains photos from the Great Depression that depict some of the hardships Americans faced during that era, including unemployment, homelessness, and poverty. The photos show a man asking why his father cannot get a job, people living in shanty towns known as "Hoovervilles", jobless men unable to support their families, and a homeless beggar. One photo also shows men working in a USA work program, highlighting how the government attempted to provide jobs during the Depression.
2. Classic Photo
• Taken from http://home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/Depression_2001_1.html
• Photograph by Dorothea Lang
3. Why can’t you give my dad a job?
Taken from Minnesota Historical Society http://shop.mnhs.org/pages.cfm?id=57
4. Living on the streets
Take from Think Quest Economic History Site
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005121/data/germany.htm
5. Hooverville
• Taken from Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm
• Also shown on National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.nps.gov/
6. Jobless Men unable to care for
their families
Taken from Pensito Review http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/page/2/
7. USA Work Program
Taken from American Life Histories, manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-
1940. Manuscript Division Library of Congress
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
8. Homeless Beggar
Taken from Bergen County Technical Schools, Teaching American History Grant,
Funded by U.S. Department of Education
http://www.bergen.org/ourstory/resources/great_depression/index.htm
