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Economic crisis of the 1930s documented by the FSA/OWI archive in photographs of American life during this period and World War II

Mentions (7)
"The greatest recession since the Great Depression hits their kids right as they enter the job market and all they do is sneer and condescend to them."
Baby Boomers are scum · u/water-drain-8 · ↑644 · 2025-01-05
"These photos come from the Library of Congress's FSA/OWI archive, which documents American life during the 1930s and 1940s. They were taken as part of a government effort to record the country during the Great Depression and World War II."
Ten Glimpses into a Distant Century · u/formyredditapp · ↑109 · 2025-05-25
"During The Great Depression, America lost something like 50% of all its animals. Largely from people hunting anything and everything for food to avoid starving. Really insane to think about."
"It's understandable why their culture is a lot more enthusiastic about finance/entrepreneurship/"hustling" than previous generations - they haven't gone through anything as bad as the Great Depression (yet), but it's comparable to the conditions that made the silent generation relatively more conser"
"it's the middle of the great depression, an unimaginably bad (from our perspective) economic downturn, and America manages to create this huge outflowing of public art, paying thousands of unemployed people to do it."
the New Deal · u/eagleofthings2come · ↑42 · 2022-01-17
"My grandparents lived through the Depression and when my grandmother shopped she bought only whole chickens and would harvest every bit of bone and skin for soups and gravy etc."
The American white middle class is fucking great · u/snes_guy · ↑30 · 2024-07-06
"You're not selling apples in the Great Depression and you sound like a sociopathic politician trying too hard to appeal to their voter base."
A couple of words that I hate · u/Natural-Pear-8844 · ↑65 · 2025-04-02
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