Video: How Americans Weathered Their Most Devastating Crisis, The Great Depression
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
The United States entered the Great Depression, one of the most devastating economic crises in history, in the late 1920s, and throughout the 1930s, most Americans were teetering on the brink of survival. Only with the outbreak of World War II did the United States manage to get out of a protracted financial downturn.
Often, images of America during the Great Depression are faded, black and white, and invariably bleak. However, these photographs from the Library of Congress, created using color transparencies by various photographers between 1939 and 1941, show the era and those who lived through it in color, providing a fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods of American history.
Trucks outside the entrance of a starch factory in Caribou, Arostuk County, Maine, late 1940. Almost 50 trucks lined up. Some had to wait a day to sort and weigh the imported potatoes.
Boys fish in a backwater in Shriver, Louisiana in the summer of 1940. Children from the Cajun ethnic group are outside a school in Terrebonne, a US Administration's Farmer Protection Project.
Transporting crates of peaches from an orchard to a dock in late 1940 in Delta County, Colorado.
Settler farmers Faro and Doris Caudill in Pye Town, New Mexico, late 1940.
The Caudill family at dinner in their dugout in Pye Town, New Mexico, late 1940.
Harvesting young corn from Jim Norris' field at Pye Town in late 1940, New Mexico.
At the Vermont State Fair in Rutland, late 1941.
Settler farmer Jim Norris in Pye Town, New Mexico, late 1940.
Distribution of surplus goods in St. John's, Arizona, 1940.
Backstage at the women's show at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland, 1941.
Tying a ribbon on a calf's tail was one of the entertainment at the Pye Town Rodeo Fair in 1940, New Mexico.
Day workers pick cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939.
An apartment block and guest workers' eatery during the low season in early 1941 in Belle Glade, Florida.
Men read headlines at the corner of the Brockton Enterprise newspaper office in Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940.
A horse cart tries to pull out a car stuck in mud near Pye Town, New Mexico, 1940.
Street barker at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland in 1941.
Colorado Delta County Fair, late 1940.
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