Images Dated 1st January 1930

American Depression 1930s

The American Depression - 1930s. Children faced starvation when local relief funds were exhausted and there was no work for their parents. Emergency food depots were set up. Here two children in Cleveland wait while their father collects a ration of potatoes

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