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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.

Farmer and two sons encountering a dust storm in Cimarron Country, Oklahoma during Dust Bowl. At the final times of the Great Depression the lands were being farmed and plowed constantly, leaving dust and air exposed to the environment, causing severe dust storms in the Great Plains.

During the Wall Street Stock Market Crash in October 1929, hundreds of Americans barged in banks to get whatever money they had left in their accounts, and to sell their stocks for any payment someone was able to offer.

FERA camp for unemployed women in Maine. These type of camps granted jobs such as sewing or writing, either to sell or give to charity and hospitals.

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

People were so in need for money that they sold their houses and lands as well as their furniture, even if they were left homeless.

People line up for hours so they can get a meal for the day, even if it consists of small portions.

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.