In Photos: The Great Depression on the American Population

Crossroads General Store, Gordonton, North Carolina, July 1939.

Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940.

San Francisco, California, 1942. Flag of allegiance pledge at Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and housed for the duration in War Relocation Authority centres.