Unemployed at their huts in a Hooverville in New York City, 1935 (West Houston and Mercer Street)

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Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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New York City's Central Park during the Great Depression, 1933

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Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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A photo of Central Park during the Great Depression (New York, 1933[OC]

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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938.

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Italian woman carring box of dry goods in New York, February of 1912. Photo by Lewis Hine.

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A girl and her cat in her family's kitchen in San Antonio, 1939

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Little girl and her kitty, Harlem, NY, 1949.

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"Bud Fields with His Wife Ivy, and His Daughter Ellen." Hale County, Alabama. 1936

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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938

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An African-American soldier sits on guard outside a slave auction. Atlanta, Georgia, 1864