The Depression Through Pictures
Stock Market Crash!
Hoover Tourist
Homeless Drifters
The Dust Bowl buried many houses of the Midwest.
The Depression left many people with a sense of hopelessness and loss.
Without jobs many men fell into a forced state of idleness.
Homelessness was common during the Depression years.
Hoovervilles
Homeless people moved into the city outskirts, building houses out of scrap material.
Thousands stormed the White House in protest of Hoover’s policies.
By Holly Woodall July 14, 2009