Men selling apples on street corners or making runs on banks, women and children in bread lines, entire families ... and possessions to survive during the Great Depression. Often, these were ...

During the Great Depression, the most tragic economic collapse ... canned foods, bought old bread, sought out soup kitchens, and stopped buying common items like milk. Lines for food ration ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929 ... With their wives and children, 15,000 of them set up a camp on Anacostia Flats, Washington to support ...

Part of the People’s Century series, Breadline – The Great Depression at Home documents the serious economic decline faced by the United States of America and felt throughout the world after the boom ...

People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression, as they wait for ... to increase its revenue and pay down debt incurred during the Civil War. The Tariff Act of 1890 raised ...

High tariffs remained for decades, particularly as the government looked to increase its revenue and pay down debt incurred during ... on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression ...