| | THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Scenes that were common during the Great Depression are rare today. The "Rag Man" , Hartford, Connecticut (1936), made a living from buying and selling bits of cloth. A junk man would also travel on his route through neighborhoods dealing in items no longer wanted. He would sometimes come by horse and wagon with its familiar bell sound announcing his arrival. Other times he used a pushcart. While 25% of the workforce was unemployed at the height of the Depression that still left the remaining 75% who remained employed. The evidence seems to show that for all the economic dislocations of the Great Depression some folks hardly felt a ripple and some even prospered. Our 1930s collection depicts this uneven effect on the economy.
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| | | The housing situation during the Great Depression is difficult to appreciate by today's standards. As people were forced from their homes they did what was necessary to survive. Some went to the Hoovervilles, especially the men as families were separated, some lived out in the open, some in sod houses, wigwams and in the photo above the "House Wagon" (Texas, 1931).
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