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Great Depression Art 1929-1939

  • Political Poster

    Political Poster

    Photo by Walker Evans -
    Photographer for Farm Security Administration
  • Business Slump

    Business Slump

    Cartoon in LIFE Magazine by Ralph Fuller
  • Empire State Building

    Empire State Building

    Built by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Architects 1930-31
  • Food Line

    Food Line

    Cartoon in LIFE Magazine by Chester Garde
  • Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries

    Song by Lew Brown
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  • Viva Zapata

    Viva Zapata

    Lithograph of a Wall Mural by Diego Rivera.
  • I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues

    Music by Luis Armstrong
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  • Brother Can You Spare a Dime

    Song by Jay Gorney
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  • Share Croppers

    Share Croppers

    Lithograph by Gordon Parks
  • Drought

    Drought

    Lithograph by Jacob Kainen that addresses environmental issues during the Depression
  • New York #1

    New York #1

    Lithograph by Seymour Fogel
  • Abandoned Antebellum Plantation House

    Abandoned Antebellum Plantation House

    Photo by Walker Evans
  • Land of Plenty

    Land of Plenty

    Lithograph by Lucienne Bloch
  • Pensive Black Man

    Pensive Black Man

    Lithograph by Seymour Fogel
  • Propaganda Poster

    Propaganda Poster

    Poster to Encourage Federal Art Programs
  • Propaganda Poster

    Propaganda Poster

    Poster for Healthy Eating
  • Realization

    Realization

    Sculpture by Augusta Savage
  • The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    This novel by John Steinbeck evokes the harshness of the Great Depression. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
  • Child and her Mother, Yakima Valley

    Child and her Mother, Yakima Valley

    Photograph by Dorothea Lange who's work pioneered "social documentary photography.".
  • If I Ever Get a Job Again

    Music by Dick Robertson
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