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Group before crowd with Herbert Hoover

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Showing the prizewinning hogs at the central Iowa Fair. Marshalltown, Iowa

Washing of the feet, 1937. [Church of the Holy] Sepulchre

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Appears before Senate Unemployment Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Contending that the problem of providing for the poverty-stricken workers transcends state lines, Paul S. Taylor of the Univ. of California, outlined a program for federal assistance. The proposed program would provide grants in aid to states for general public assistance. The states would submit to the Social Security Board plans in which adequate provisions for non-residents would be included

Appears before Senate Unemployment Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Contending that the problem of providing for the poverty-stricken workers transcends state lines, Paul S. Taylor of the Univ. of California, outlined a program for federal assistance. The proposed program would provide grants in aid to states for general public assistance. The states would submit to the Social Security Board plans in which adequate provisions for non-residents would be included

Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. William L. Austin (left) Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and whose workers are tabulating the returns from the unemployment questionnaires, describes to Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers the working of the special tabulating machine used to count the unemployed noses. Work of counting the unemployed returns was begun in the Capital today. 11/24/37

Unemployment compensation a protection against business recessions. Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board, appearing before the Special Senate Committee investigating unemployment, declared today that the unemployment compensation was the nation's "first line of defense" against business recessions. At the same time he warned the committee that out-of-work remuneration will never prove more than this slight barrier, 1/5/37

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

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Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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california san francisco county san francisco safety film negatives golden gate unemployment benefits aid unemployment benefits aid line men division office division office state employment service state employment service office first days dollars fifteen dollars sixteen weeks coincidental announcement census unemployment census million persons ten million persons work twenty two twenty two states compensation 1930 s commoners room interior interior united states history great depression library of congress
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01/01/1938
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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San Francisco, California, United States ,  37.77493, -122.41942
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor with a United States convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia. Having a bad moment on the snowbound mountain pass as the American trucks ease by a disabled truck

Valdez-Fairbanks Trail Roadhouses, Sullivan Roadhouse, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

[Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts. (1st Div. no. 159)]

Italian metal worker at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fallston Pennsylvania

Family at annual meeting of cooperative, Southeast Missouri Farms

Civilian protection. An emergency unit gives first aid in the field and examines the victim of a fallen bomb. After treatment, he will be quickly evacuated to the nearest hospital or bandaged and turned over to an emergency housing unit. The "M.D." next to the caduceus on the doctor's armband indicated that he is a registered physician

Willis Winn, Marshall, gelatin silver print

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers. Meeting of the first aid school in the main auditorium of the community building

Making pie crusts. Bakery, San Angelo, Texas

Etter Bridge, County State Aid Highway 68 over Vermillion River, Hastings, Dakota County, MN

San Francisco, California. First aid demonstration at the Presidio of the proper method of treating an abdominal wound by keeping it moist until the patient can be removed to a field hospital, perhaps by improvising a stretcher by army blankets and rifles

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california san francisco county san francisco safety film negatives golden gate unemployment benefits aid unemployment benefits aid line men division office division office state employment service state employment service office first days dollars fifteen dollars sixteen weeks coincidental announcement census unemployment census million persons ten million persons work twenty two twenty two states compensation 1930 s commoners room interior interior united states history great depression library of congress