| Depression Days | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1480 |
| Catalog #: | 499761 | |
| Clip Number: | 499761-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-35-006 | |
| Timecode: | 01:29:36 - 01:30:33 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEVERAGES/ALCOHOL: Beer BUILDINGS: Houses, General ECONOMICS: Poverty GREAT DEPRESSION: Conditions LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | Master 1480 - Tape 1 MS white men and women hoisting & swinging filled beer steins while singing, celebrating repeal of Prohibition via FDR's Beer Bill. MS four unemployed white men squatting on street, eating hot meal & drinking coffee during Great Depression. TLS/LSs dilapidated wood houses & abandoned mills in rural farming communities and company towns during the Great Depression era, including one shot with a scrawny dog wandering along dirt road, passing by wood shack. TLSs white people standing in line to receive ration of coal; MS men wheeling carts or carrying sacks of coal. MS elderly Jewish man with long white beard pushing cart of coal across street, passing through crowd of pedestrians. | |
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