The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s
Farmer on Oliver tractor
Auctioneer
Relief line
Farm foreclosure
Iowa Farmers Strike
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Civilian Conservation Corps
The Dust Bowl
Overproduction Leads to Low Prices
The New Deal Brings Relief
Agriculture Adjustment Act
FDR Promises a New Deal
Men at the City Mission, 1940
Time Frame: 1940
Men waiting in line outside the city mission. The first 25 were fed. Dubuque, Iowa. April, 1940.
Photographer: John Vachon
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
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