Depression Breadlines in New York City
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Depression Breadlines in New York City

In the absence of substantial government relief programs during 1932, free food was distributed with private funds in some urban centers to large numbers of the unemployed

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Great Depression United States
  • National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

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