“Depression Employment Line” New York City 19301939- British soldier takes tea to comrades working to repair banks of River Ravensbourne which flooded south London.Coca Cola Truck Fleet, Venice, Florida. Late 1930’sDornier Do X in New York harbour, August 27, 1931.Hong Kong 1938A local girl pinning a flower on a German soldier’s uniform in Olbersdorf, as Nazi forces occupy the Sudetenland. 1938DC-4 flying over Manhattan, 1939.Robert Wadlow, 8′ 11″ tallest man in the world. 1937Two boys play-fight while other children look on, Harlem, 1938.Looking down State towards the Capitol near intersection of South Swan, 1937, in Albany, N.Y.Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen opened by Al Capone in Depression-era Chicago, Illinois, U.S., 1931Kay Petre and her Delage, May 1935.A mother and her children, Elm Grove, CA, 1936.Havana, 1930sZeppelin 1936Brassaï, Paris, 1930sCrowd at New York’s American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great DepressionUnemployed men march in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1930Unemployed people in front of a workhouse in London, 1930Buried machinery in barn lot in Dallas, South Dakota. 1936Prospective homesteaders in front of post office at United, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Circa 1935.A London Underground member of staff at Leicester Square station, 1933Dominoes in a north London pub, 1930’s‘Old’ Yankee Stadium and the Harlem River, 1933.Boys play a makeshift game of pool on a Harlem street, 1938.Pan American Clipper passing over an unfinished Golden Gate Bridge en route to Hawaii (April 16th, 1935).Max Factor’s beauty callibrator, 1934Berlin Olympics, Photo by Leni Riefenstahl, 1936Hindenburg 1936Finalists for the Island of Lost Souls (1932) ‘Panther Woman’ competitionShowgirls 1938Casual 1930sCoast Guard Beach Patrol member on the American coast with his patrol dog 1930sGeiko Toba reading a book. 1938“Youngest little girl of motherless family.” Washington State. August 1939. Photograph by Dorothea Lange1930s PierrotEvelyn Kelly 19321930s Iran – Persian Fakir.Washing day. 1931Walker Evans. Citizen in Downtown Havana 1933Nurses in Shanghai. 1930sSan Francisco during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge March, 1935Photograph of an unknown man during the Depression c.1932.Misses Russia, Austria, Holland. 1930Martin Munkacsi – Dancers in Seville 1930Having lunch on the roof of Adelaide House, 1934London Police officer herding sheep in Hyde Park, 1930’sInspectors looking for smuggled immigrants check a freight train from Mexico entering El Paso, Texas, June 1938.Yonge St., Toronto, Canada 1938Two women sport their “short shorts” in Toronto in the late 1930s.
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