Recruits to a New Deal reforestation service receive a meal from a army soup kitchen at South Street, New York City, 4th August 1933.
Unemployed men queuing for coffee and bread at a soup kitchen run by the Bahai Fellowship at 203 East 9th Street, New York, circa 1930.
The front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper with the headline 'Wall St. In Panic As Stocks Crash', published on the day of the initial Wall...
Unemployed bread lines; despite a heavy rain, these poor unfortunates, jobless and moneyloos , wait in line at Grand and Christie Streets in NYC for...
Bread line forms outside the Rescue Society in Doyers Street, New York City, during the Great Depression, 1929.
Men wait in line to enter the Beacon Relief Mission on Bowery Street during the Great Depression, Manhattan, New York City.
New York City: Depression shacks "Hoover Village" in the old Central Park reservoir. Undated photograph.
Filed 1/1930- New York, NY: "Down and Outs" and unemployed wait on a bread line for handouts at the Rescue Society, Doyers Street Mission in...
New York, NY: The Great Depression: Unemployment line up at the City Welfare Bureau to register for city jobs.
New York, NY: Feeding New York hungry from a doorstep on East 62nd Street. Photograph. Depression era.
Traders rush October in Wall Street as New York Stock Exchange crashed sparking a run on banks that spread accross the country. October 1929 was the...
Thanksgiving dinner is served to the homeless by the Volunteers of America, at the Bowery Tabernacle on East Houston Street, circa 1935. More than...
New York, NY: Depression Breadline: Women of unemployed workers receiving food from priests of the New Hope Mission in New York, 1930's.
Man extends his plate to get a ladle full of food while on a soup line during the Great Depression, New York City, 1932.
William I. Sirovich, Heywood Brown, and Reverend Raymond Brown hand out packages of food to the jobless outside St. Peter's Mission in New York City.
The Great Crash of 1929, and lessons taming the crisis of 2008 ". - This undate photo shows traders working in Wall Street, in New York. October 1929...
Unemployed squatters at the Hard Luck Camp at the foot of 9th and 10th Streets and the East River in New York City, waiting for eviction by the...
New York, NY- ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Harlem unemployed stand in line for food provided by New York Police.
William I. Sirovich and Heywood Brown, shown above with the Reverend Raymond Norman, are dealing out bread and coffee to hungry and jobless at St....
This pinched and poor old lady holds up her bag for coal which the city is distributing from many stations throughout New York, One of the busiest...
In a London club run by St Phalle Ltd, members watch fluctuations in the New York stock market during the Wall Street crash as changes are chalked up...
During the Great Depression, a large group of men line up to receive five cent meals on West 44th street in New York City, New York, 1930s. A sign...
New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Children playing in the street. Artist Walker Evans.
Children sitting outside tenement housing, with laundry hanging from clotheslines between the housing blocks, secured on drainpipes and fire escapes,...
Woman standing beside a bathtub in a kitchen, with kitchen utensils hanging on the wall, living conditions in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan...
An old woman receives her Thanksgiving ration of food in New York, during the Great Depression, 7th November 1930. Tons of food were distributed...
Background for Hightstown project photographs. Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street, New York. Garment workers leave the factories for noon hour....
Crowds of unemployed men outside the Bowery Mission on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, USA, circa 1935. The mission provides food,...
New York, New York- Part of the delegation of needy unemployed single women as they paraded with banners bearing their demands, to the headquarters...
New York, NY: The official and unofficial cold weather records for more than a century in New York City have been shattered Feb. 9th when the...
Two housewives of Canarsie, Brooklyn, are shown purchasing food with the new Canarsie Scrip money at the butcher shop of Anthony Medici, as the...
New York, USA New Yorkers celebrated Christmas in 1931, with a city-wide solicitude for those touched by misfortune during the year, The Municipal...
New York: One of the many finding another means of support after losing his job. Selling apples on 8th Avenue in New York City. He is also carrying a...
Relief organisation Browery Mission in New York supplying bread for tramps and vagrants, homeless men queueing at night at the breadline...
New York, NY: Photograph shows the street scene on Black Thursday, the day the New York stock market crashed, and the day that led to the Great...
Men and boys wait in the bread line at the Bowery mission around midnight during the Depression, New York City.
Down-and-out sleeps rough in the notorious Skid Row area - a street in the Bowery, New York City. He knows enough to position himself on the west...
The Great Crash of 1929, and lessons taming the crisis of 2008 ". This undate photo shows traders working in Wall Street, in New York. October 1929...
Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be...
Homeless men eating in the main dining hall of the Municipal Lodging House on East 25th Street, New York City, circa 1935. The building, which...
Some of the 225 unemployed men fed and housed at a hostel in the gymnasium of St Mark's Chapel in New York, circa 1935.
Crowed of unemployed men gather in the rain in front of a row of employment agencies on Sixth Avenue during the Great Depression, New York City, 1931.
Footprints in the snow leading from makeshift dwellings, constructed by the destitute, in Central Park, New York City, New York, circa January 1933.
Out of rear window tenement dwelling of Mr. And Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Avenue D, New York City. The Solomon family are all on the accepted list for...
Top half of the front page of the newspaper Brooklyn Daily Eagle has banner headline reading 'Wall St. In Panic As Stocks Crash' which describes the...
Group of boys use the tenement housing environment as a playground. From the series One Third of a Nation, New York City.
Anxious crowds waiting in front of the Sub-Treasury Building, , opposite the Stock Exchange during the Wall Street Crash.