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Subjects

1930s
B&W

Men walk past a sign reading ‘Jobless men keep going we can’t take care of our own Chamber of Commerce’. White and African-American Men line up to receive relief. A ’For Rent’ sign hangs in the window of a bank. Women stand around the window of a store. Close up of a man’s hands as he counts some cash. A mounted police man stands by a line of men. Close up of an elderly man with a mustache. A sign in a store front reads ‘We accept food tickets and cash relief checks’. Veteran’s camp out in tents near the Capitol Building in Washington DC.