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					    作者:秃公 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
 
 
   
 
Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph is entitled Migrant Mother taken in Nipomo, California in 1936. Lange was famous for capturing the hardship, anguish, and the humanity of the Great Depression. 
 
 
Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s, the people of the United States faced some of their toughest years. Only the Second World War would put an end to the Great Depression.
 
Depression Era Unemployment
 
 
	Year	U.S. Population	Unemployment Percentage
 
	1929	88,010,000	3.14
 
	1930	89,550,000	8.67
 
	1931	90,710,000	15.82
 
	1932	91,810,000	23.53
 
	1933	92,950,000	24.75
 
	1934	94,190,000	21.60
 
	1935	95,460,000	19.97
 
	1936	96,700,000	16.80
 
	1937	97,870,000	14.18
 
	1938	99,120,000	18.91
 
	1939	100,360,000	17.05
 
	1940	101,560,000	14.45
 
	1941	102,700,000	9.66
 
Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington, D.C., 1960), p. 70.
 
   
 
This map shows the states that were considered dust bowl states and the areas affected by dust storms. Notice that many states not considered dust bowl states were still damaged by dust storms. The whole middle of the United States was literally blowing away.
 
 
FROM: Chapter 24:  The Great Depression
 
 
   
 
 
Not again in my life time, Amen!
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