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In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and recovery came in 1940. The stock market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic ...
Great Depression. Unemployed people lined up outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone during the Great Depression in February 1931. The Great Depression was a period of severe global economic downturn that occurred from 1929 to 1939. It was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial ...
Florence Owens Thompson. Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange 's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California.
The Library of Congress recently released over 1,600 color photos of the Great Depression. The pictures, which were taken during the final years of the Depression, offer a fresh perspective on one ...
Photos of America during the Great Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white -- until now.
Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or Crash of '29, was a major stock market crash in the United States in late 1929. It began in late October with a sharp decline in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and ended in mid-November. The crash began a rapid erosion of confidence in ...
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. ... a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure ...
Agricultural land and revenue boomed during World War I, but fell during the Great Depression and the 1930s. [42] [verification needed] The agricultural land most affected by the Dust Bowl was 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. These 20 counties that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil ...