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272 Great Depression Lines Images and Stock Photos

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The advertisement that free meals for the unemployed would be served at the Willow Tree Restaurant, 28th Street and Broadway, brought a crowd of...

Men Stand On Line On Sidewalk/Nyc

Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals...

Men Waiting Outside Al Capone Soup Kitchen

S Great Depression. In the US Cities, lines of homeless and jobless people queue for assistance.

1930's Great Depression. In the US Cities, lines of homeless and jobless people queue for assistance.

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.

New York Breadline

Unemployed men wait in long lines for bread and handouts during the Great Depression.

Unemployed Men in Bread Line

Unemployed men line up outside a Great Depression-era soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone. The storefront sign reads "Free Soup, Coffee and...

Unemployed Men Outside a Depression Soup Kitchen in Chicago, February, 1931

Some of the circa 6,000 men and women queueing outside an employment agency at 60 Lafayette Street in New York on August 19th, 1930. 135 of them were...

Unemployed Queue In New York

Unemployed men receiving soup and slices of bread in an outdoor breadline during the Great Depression, Los Angeles, California. Some women serve the...

On The Bread Line

Line of unemployed men buy apples for 5 cents during the Great Depression of America. From The Literary Digest, published 1930.

A line of unemployed men buy apples for 5 cents during the Great Depression of America

Bread line forms outside the Rescue Society in Doyers Street, New York City, during the Great Depression, 1929.

New York Bread Line

During the Great Depression, view of a line of men standing outside a soup kitchen opened by gangster Al Capone in Chicago, Illinois, February 1931....

Al Capone's Soup Kitchen

During the Great Depression, unemployed, hungry people wait in line at Times Square for rations.

Unemployed in Line for Rations

Unemployed men on bread line during the Depression. B/W photograph, undated.

Bread Line During Depression

New York, New York City:: Unemployed are queueing up for meals being handed out in a Franciscan church - 1930 - Vintage property of ullstein bild

USA New York New York City: Unemployed are queueing up for meals being handed out in a Franciscan church - 1930 - Vintage property of ullstein bild

Detroit, MI-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Handing out bread and soup to the hungry in Detroit. Photograph, 1930.

Men Waiting on Soup Line in Detroit

View of unemployed men as they line up outside a soup kitchen organized by mobster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, late 1930 or early 1931. .

In Line For A Soup Kitchen

New Yorkers queue at a soup kitchen set up by Mayor La Guardia in response to a recent cold snap, ca. 1935.

New Yorkers Queue For Food

Unemployed men queuing for food during the Great Depression, Iowa, USA, circa 1935.

Depression Era Food Line

Unemployed queue outside a soup kitchen in Sydney in 1932.

Unemployed queue outside a soup

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida 1939.

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid.

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, USA 1931. New Yorkers celebrated Christmas in 1931, with a city-wide solicitude for those touched by misfortune during the year. The Municipal Lodging House fed 10,000 persons, including about 100 women and the Police Glee Club and the Police B

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....

Men Distributing Bread and Coffee to the Needy

Breadline at the intersection of 6th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City during the Depression that followed the Wall Street Crash.

Queue waiting outside a centre in Madrid where bread is either free or sold for a nominal sum.

Women queuing for work in Farringdon Street, London.

The line up for free soup distributed by the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen, which was warmly welcomed when it visited Gateshead, 30th January 1934.

Salvation army travelling soup kitchen, 1934

Unemployed men seen here queueing up at the Labour Exchange in the Midlands, 23rd October 1931.

1931 Depression

Unemployed labourers waiting for work at a dockyard.

With more than 30,000 boxes of apples sold in three weeks, hundreds of unemployed are making a living hawking fruit on streets in New York City photo...

Apples Being Sold

New York, NY: The Great Depression: Unemployment line up at the City Welfare Bureau to register for city jobs.

Unemployment Line In New York City

Long queue during the Great Depression in America. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the...

Long queue during the Great Depression in America

Relief organisation Browery Mission in New York supplying bread for tramps and vagrants, homeless men queueing at night at the breadline...

Vagrants, tramps, Midnight at the Bowery Mission Breadline

Huge queue outside the Board of Health offices in Centre Street, New York, for licences to sell alcohol shortly after the repeal of prohibition. The...

Alcohol Licences

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USA grunge flag

Part of the daily line-up outside the State Unemployment Office, Memphis, USA

Unemployed men waiting in line to enter the Emergency Unemployment Relief registration offices in New York on October 28th, 1931.

Queue Of Unemployed Men

View of some of the 12,000 unemployed men applying for 2,000 job vacancies recently announced by the Park Department in Cleveland, Ohio, on October...

Unemployed Applying For Jobs

Soup line at The Bowery Mission, Manhattan, New York City, United States of America during the great depression. From The Literary Digest, published...

A soup line at The Bowery Mission, Manhattan, New York City, United States of America during the great depression

The breadline, a visible sign of poverty during the Great Depression, USA, 1930s.

The Breadline A Visible Sign Of Poverty During The Great Depression USA 1930

View of men queuing up for a bread line near the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1930s. Farm Security Administration.

Men Waiting On A Bread Line

Part of a long line of homeless earthquake victims as they wait for food rations at a relief tent set up after a series of devastating quakes, Long...

In The Aftermath

Arbeitslosigkeit in England: lange Schlangen von Erwerbslosen vor den Unterstützungsämtern- 1931

Arbeitslose in England

Hundreds of people line up for the Christmas dinner at the New York Municipal Lodging House. | Location: Manahttan, New York City, New York, USA.

Winding Breadline in Manhattan on Christmas

Group of women queue for food during their ten day camping holiday in Herne Bay, east Kent. The trip was organised by the North Lambeth branch of the...

Unemployed women waiting in line at an unidentified location, circa 1930s.

Queue Of Unemployed Women

View of unemployed men as they line up outside a soup kitchen organized by mobster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, late 1930 or early 1931. .

In Line For A Soup Kitchen

Stretching down the street as far as the eye can see, these jobless men wait in line at the Municipal Lodging House, E. 25th St., for Christmas...

Jobless Men Wait in Line for Christmas Dinner

Bread line at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City during the Great Depression.

A bread line at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City during the Great Depression

High Angle View of group of men lined up to register for Unemployment Benefits at State Employment Service office, San Francisco, California, USA,...

High Angle View of group of men lined up to register for Unemployment Benefits at State Employment Service office

The Bonus Army, a demonstration largely made up of World War I veterans and their families, lines up at the mess tent at their camp in Fort Hunt,...

America in the Great Depression, 1930s. Men queue for a five-cent meal. Those on left of sign will get their meal, those further up the queue must...

America in the Great Depression, 1930s. Men queue for a five-cent meal. Those on left of sign will get their meal, those further up the queue must hope for a generous passerby.

The Great Depression in the U.S.: Men eating bread and soup in a breadline. Undated photograph.BPA2# 1048

Men Eating Soup During Great Depression

Unemployed men queuing at a labour exchange, October 1931. By August 1931, employment in Britain had risen to two million, its highest level since...

Unemployed men queuing at a labour exchange, October 1931

New York, NY: Feeding New York hungry from a doorstep on East 62nd Street. Photograph. Depression era.

Soup Line in New York During Depression

1930s GROUP OF UNEMPLOYED MEN WORKERS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT WAITING FOR WORK OUTSIDE A FACTORY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

1930s GROUP OF UNEMPLOYED MEN

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Waiting For The Relief Checks At Calipatria

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...

Down And Out On Bread Line

Long line of unemployed and homeless men wait outside to get free dinner at the municipal lodging house during the Great Depression, in New York,...

The Great Depression

Group of men line up outside a Chicago soup kitchen opened by Al Capone, ca.1930s. In a bid to rebuild his reputation, Capone opened a soup kitchen...

Capone's Soup Kitchen

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 in Depression-Era New York