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  2. Life was not easy during the 1930s, as these evocative photos make plain. Migrant Mother (1936) George Eastman House Collection/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. This famous photograph is searing in its depiction of the utter desperation the Great Depression brought to so many and has become a symbol of the Depression. This woman was one of many ...
  3. The pictures of the Great Depression show the terrible economic effects of that time. They have an emotional impact that statistics lack. ... 1930-1931, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940. The affected regions could not recover before the next one hit. By 1934, the drought covered 75% of the country, affecting 27 states. The worst-hit was the Oklahoma ...
  4. The Great Depression in Canada lasted for most of the 1930s. Pictures of relief camps, soup kitchens, protest marches, and drought are vivid reminders of the pain and desperation of those years. The Great Depression was felt across Canada, although its impact varied from region to region. Areas dependent on mining, logging, fishing, and farming ...
  5. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images. This opened the 20th century with some amazing scientific and technological feats: the first flight by the Wright brothers, Henry Ford's first Model-T, and Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. ... Other news in the 1930s included the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart over the Pacific, a ...
  6. The New Deal was a sweeping package of public works projects, federal regulations, and financial system reforms that the United States federal government enacted to help the nation survive and recover from the Great Depression of the 1930s. The New Deal programs created jobs and provided financial support for the unemployed, young, and elderly, and added safeguards and constraints to the ...
  7. Bonnie and Clyde were notorious outlaws who made headlines across the country during the Great Depression.During those tough times for many Americans, the flamboyant pair was seen by some as a romantic young couple looking for adventure, though they were blamed for killing 13 people and committing countless other crimes.
  8. A great resource for anyone researching ancestors who worked for the Erie Railroad, linking Chicago and Jersey City-New York, with employee rosters, photographs, historical news articles, reports and other related data. Most of the information comes from back issues of the company's "Erie" magazine dating back to circa 1851.
  9. Margaret Bourke-White was a war correspondent and career photographer whose images represent major events in the 20th century. She was the first woman war photographer and the first woman photographer allowed to accompany a combat mission. Her iconic photographs include images of the Great Depression, World War II, Buchenwald concentration camp survivors, and Gandhi at his spinning wheel.
  10. The Dust Bowl was the name given to an area of the Great Plains (southwestern Kansas, Oklahoma panhandle, Texas panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, and southeastern Colorado) that was devastated by nearly a decade of drought and soil erosion during the 1930s. The huge dust storms that ravaged the area destroyed crops and made living there ...
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