Focus Question:

How did the Great Depression

affect the lives of urban and
rural Americans?
Do Now:
Read the lyrics to the song Brother
Can You Spare A Dime? How has
this person's life been affected by
the Depression?

 Children During the Great Depression

Unemployed men on a bread line in

Chicago, 1931 (photographer unknown).

A Hooverville in Central Park, 1932

(photographer unknown).

A Hooverville in Seattle, Washington, 1937

(photograph by James P. Lee).

A bank run in New York, 1931

(photographer unknown).

Bank Runs

Farmer and Son walking in the face of a dust

storm, 1936 Cimmaron County, Oklahoma
(photographer Arthur Rothstein).

A Migrant Family in
Californias
agricultural region
March, 1935
(photographer
Dorothea Lange).

Family
who
traveled by
freight
train.
Washington,

Toppenish,
Yakima
Valley, 1936

(photograph
-er Dorothea
Lange).

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children.

Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo,
California (Dorothea Lange, 1936).

Jobless
Men Keep
Going
(Photo
by John
E Allen).

Forgotten Women, unemployed and single, in job

demand parade (Telegram staff photo, 1933).