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Millions of unemployed Americans line up outside a shop in hope to receive free coffee and doughnuts provided by the government.

Florence Owens Thompson, a 32 year old mother of seven children in Nipomo, California, living as an impoverished pea picker.

Unemployed men during the Great Depression walking past a sing asking them to keep going, since the town they are walking into lives in the same conditions as the entire American country, and has no jobs to offer.

Shanty towns built by the homeless in the environs of the city, named Hoovervilles after President Herbert Hoover as Americans blamed him for the Great Depression at the time

Shanty towns built by the homeless in the environs of the city, named Hoovervilles after President Herbert Hoover as Americans blamed him for the Great Depression at the time

Shanty towns built by the homeless in the environs of the city, named Hoovervilles after President Herbert Hoover as Americans blamed him for the Great Depression at the time

Shanty towns built by the homeless in the environs of the city, named Hoovervilles after President Herbert Hoover as Americans blamed him for the Great Depression at the time

With the new economic reforms the New Deal proposed, many skilled and unskilled unemployed men were given jobs. Most of these positions were focused on the construction of roads and railroads. 

Men asking for beer, alcohol, during the Prohibition times while the Great Depression was taking place in the United States

Miserable houses of workers from one of the biggest pea plantations in the state of California

Jobless men lining up outside of New York municipal building in order to get a free dinner

 Jobless men lining up outside of New York municipal building in order to get a free dinner

Jobless men lining up outside of New York municipal building in order to get a free dinner

Bankers were hit even more roughly; most of their crops would not be sold, and if they did they had to work almost as double as before the Depression started

Even the youngest were affected deeply by the Great Depression, and some even ended up in the streets

Millions of houses and farms were foreclosed by banks since their owners were not able to pay mortgages

Hundreds of people were to sleep in benches, dumpsters, and even in streets since they had no home to go to

With the New Deal, children were given a free meal during their school day    

Millions of houses were foreclosed and abandoned by their previous owners    

People crowding outside banks on Black Tuesday, known as the day of the crash of the stock market in the United States