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Unit 2: Great Depression Activity 3

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Activity 3: Great Depression
3-1 Children of Earl Pauley, playing with dolls in tumbleweed, near Smithland, Iowa, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USF33-011115-M2 DLC]
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Children of Earl Pauley in doorway, near Smithland, Iowa, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USF33-011115-M5 DLC]

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3-3 Mrs. Theodore Eickholt and her three children, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USF33-011117-M3 DLC]
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3-4 Part of Alfred Atkinson family who rent eighty acres of land from an estate near Shannon City, Iowa, 1937. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USF34-010142-D DLC]
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3-5 Hooverville of Bakersfield, CA. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available. Approximately one thousand now living here and raising children, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USF34-001774-C DLC]
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Depression: Unemployed: Typical picture capturing the number of people who were unemployed and looking for a job, 1935. US National Archives & Records Administration, item from collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
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