The Great Depression (colorized) photos of History...

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One glaring thing I noticed. No one is smiling.

I know....there wasn't much to smile about then....it was just misery and suffering....

 

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Oklahoma Refugee Children 1936​

 

[Leo123]

Was there a water shortage? Lots of those folks have dirt all over them.

 

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Was there a water shortage? Lots of those folks have dirt all over them.

I don't know.....probably there was water shortage.

 

[skye]

some didn't have it so bad


Miami Beach, Florida, 1939.

 

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Pontiac convertible coupe at Tanforan racetrack, San Bruno, April 17, 1935.

 

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These were the lucky ones...


A couple and their Cadillac V-16 automobile. Harlem, New York City, 1932.

 

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Migrant workers near Prague, Oklahoma.

 

[skye]

The Migrant Mother is a very famous portrait taken in 1936 during the Great Depression


"It’s one of the most iconic photos in American history. A woman in ragged clothing holds a baby as two more children huddle close, hiding their faces behind her shoulders. The mother squints into the distance, one hand lifted to her mouth and anxiety etched deep in the lines on her face.

From the moment it first appeared in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper in March 1936, the image known as “Migrant Mother” came to symbolize the hunger, poverty and hopelessness endured by so many Americans during the Great Depression"


https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/85b830/the_migrant_mother_is_a_very_famouse_portrait/

 

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Finding some peace in the midst of the Great Depression...


Central Park. 1933.

 

[skye]

This is interesting...happened during the Depression...

The German airship Hindenburg flies over New York City, just hours before suffering its deadly explosion in Lakehurst, N.J. May 6, 1937.

 

[sparky]

Almost a century later, i'm living with these folks .

Homeless, hopeless, scum of the earth

~S~

 

[skye]

Almost a century later, i'm living with these folks .

Homeless, hopeless, scum of the earth

~S~

Not the same.

All those posted here are LEGAL European immigrants....every single one of them came through Staten Island LEGALLY!

Today you have savages crossing the border ...

A totally different kind of people! OK?

 

[Foxfyre]

I thought this was pretty cool. It shows the Great Depression and how it was back in history. The photos are colorized and I thought it was informative. I hope you enjoy...

The generation before mine grew up and became adults with adult responsibilities during the Great Depression. Those with farms or with family who farmed generally fared much better than those who didn't have that because they could raise their own meat, vegetables, eggs, milk, cheese, lard, some even ground their own flour.

At least those who owned their land fared better. Commodity prices were so depressed that many, maybe most, who still owed for their property had it taken by the banks/mortgage lenders. And of course those caught in the dust bowl couldn't even grow anything.

It was hard times for many Americans.

 

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Another photo from the years of the Great Depression...

People had to find ways to mitigate the pain and misery I imagine....everything was so horrible....


Waiters serve lunch to two steel workers on a girder high above the city during construction of the famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Nov. 14, 1930.

 

[skye]

Almost a century later, i'm living with these folks .

Homeless, hopeless, scum of the earth

~S~

I was going to say.....

 

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A family eats dinner inside of their dugout home.

Pie Town, New Mexico

 

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The child of migrant workers sits in her new home, struggling to adjust to her changing life.

New Mexico. December 1935

 

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I don't know what that means.....but a good photo


Distributing commodities in St. Johns, AZ,

 

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Garden adjacent to the dugout home of homesteader Jack Whinery, in Pie Town, New Mexico,