Tag: Great Depression
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WPA poster promoting public hygiene: “Keep Clean” by Erik Hans Krause, ca. 1936–39.
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Photo: Men sitting on park benches in Haddon Heights, NJ, 1934. The Great Depression hit many people like this hard, not just economically but also physically and mentally.
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Photograph by Dorothea Lange from 1938 accompanied by revealing quotations from a father and son on the cusp of leaving the land.
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“Migrant worker looking through back window of automobile near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma,” 1939.
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Poster for Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” in play form, presented in New York City by the WPA Federal Theater.
