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Background imageUnemployed Collection: Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Men on 'Skid Row', Modesto, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Men on "Skid Row", Modesto, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Drought refugees waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: On the steps of the bank in the town square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the steps of the bank in the town square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the steps of the bank in the town square. Memphis, Texas

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service OfficeMemphis, Tennessee, 1938

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service OfficeMemphis, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938
Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938
Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Marchers from Shoreditch, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933) Creator: Unknown

Marchers from Shoreditch, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933) Creator: Unknown
Marchers from Shoreditch, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). The Shoreditch contingent arrives at Hyde Park

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Mounted police baton-charging marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933)

Mounted police baton-charging marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). The National Hunger March of September to October 1932 was the largest of a series of hunger marches in

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Le Chevalier de l'éperon d'or, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier

Le Chevalier de l'éperon d'or, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Chevalier de l'eperon d'or, 1842. Knight of the order of the Golden Spur. Se disant ancien Colonel des gardes de sa Saintite depuis aide de camp du Prince de Monaco

Background imageUnemployed Collection: The hock shop, Skid Row, Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The hock shop, Skid Row, Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Skid Row. Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Howard Street in San Francisco, known as 'Skid Row, ' the district of the unemployed, 1937

Howard Street in San Francisco, known as "Skid Row, " the district of the unemployed, 1937
Howard Street in San Francisco, known as "Skid Row, " the district of the unemployed

Background imageUnemployed Collection: California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939

California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Pea pickers waiting at FSA office for issue of surplus commodities, Calipatria, California, 1939

Pea pickers waiting at FSA office for issue of surplus commodities, Calipatria, California, 1939
Pea pickers waiting at Farm Security Administration (FSA) office for issue of surplus commodities. Calipatria, California

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Homeless family of seven, walking the highway... on U.S. 99, near Brawley, Imperial County, 1939

Homeless family of seven, walking the highway... on U.S. 99, near Brawley, Imperial County, 1939
On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon, 1939

Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Possibly: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Possibly: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. " Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn t to do it. It ain t fair in no way

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory worker in auto camp, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. " Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn t to do it. It ain t fair in no way

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community... Yakima, Washington, 1939

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community... Yakima, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars)

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Idle migrants, foothills north of San Jose, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Idle migrants, foothills north of San Jose, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Idle migrants. Foothills north of San Jose, California. " If the sun shines tomorrow and nothin happens, we ll pick, And they ve got orders from the law

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Unemployed young men pause a moment... Salvation Army, San Francisco, California, 1939

Unemployed young men pause a moment... Salvation Army, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Unemployed young men pause a moment to loiter and watch, and then pass on. [Signs: Money Loaned on Everything; Pawnbrokers ]

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939

Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California. [Signs: Hotel - Coffee Shop - Cocktails']

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Outside FSA grant office during the pea harvest, Calipatria, California, 1939

Outside FSA grant office during the pea harvest, Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Interior of unemployed mans house, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935. Creator: Walker Evans

Interior of unemployed mans house, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935. Creator: Walker Evans
Interior of unemployed mans house. Morgantown, West Virginia

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Photograph of people standing in a line on a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ca. 1920

Photograph of people standing in a line on a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ca. 1920
A black-and-white photograph that depicts a large group of people standing in a line on a street with one car in the center of the photograph

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Coxeys Army, c. 1894. Creator: Robert Henri

Coxeys Army, c. 1894. Creator: Robert Henri
Coxeys Army, c. 1894

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Signalement Des Chouans et Autres Contrevolutionaires, ca. 1793. Creator: Unknown

Signalement Des Chouans et Autres Contrevolutionaires, ca. 1793. Creator: Unknown
Signalement Des Chouans et Autres Contrevolutionaires, ca. 1793

Background imageUnemployed Collection: The Tempter (Punch, November 27, 1886), 1886. Creator: John Tenniel

The Tempter (Punch, November 27, 1886), 1886. Creator: John Tenniel
The Tempter (Punch, November 27, 1886), 1886. [Spirit of Anarchy: " What! No Work! Come and enlist with me - I ll find work for you!!" ]

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Pair of Stereograph Views of General Jacob S. Coxeys Army of the Unemployed, 1850s-1910s

Pair of Stereograph Views of General Jacob S. Coxeys Army of the Unemployed, 1850s-1910s

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Scottish marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). Creator: Unknown

Scottish marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Scottish marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). The Scottish demonstrators make their entry. Most of the marchers made their way peaceably to their homes

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Mounted police and marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933)

Mounted police and marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). Demonstrators under escort. The National Hunger March of September to October 1932 was the largest of a series of

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Workers leaving... after construction of Cunarder 534 was suspended, December 1931, (1935)

Workers leaving... after construction of Cunarder 534 was suspended, December 1931, (1935)
Workers leaving the shipyards after construction of Cunarder 534 was suspended, Clydebank, Scotland, December 1931, (1935)

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Employment office, on Sixth Avenue near Forty-third Street, New York, early 1930s

Employment office, on Sixth Avenue near Forty-third Street, New York, early 1930s
Employment office, on Sixth Avenue near Forty-third Street, New York, USA, early 1930s. Looking for work during the Great Depression

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Unemployed men sitting outside the Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA, February 1937

Unemployed men sitting outside the Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA, February 1937. Victims of the Great Depression

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Bonus Army in Anacostia Park, Washington DC, USA, Great Depression, 1932. Artist

Bonus Army in Anacostia Park, Washington DC, USA, Great Depression, 1932. Artist
Bonus Army in Anacostia Park, Washington DC, USA, Great Depression, 1932. The Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force) was a protest by First World War veterans

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Bonus Army demonstrating outside the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, Great Depression, 1932

Bonus Army demonstrating outside the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, Great Depression, 1932. The Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force)

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Shack made of barrels and tar paper, St Louis, Missouri, USA, Great Depression, 1931

Shack made of barrels and tar paper, St Louis, Missouri, USA, Great Depression, 1931. One of a mile-long row of such makeshift huts on the shore of the Mississippi

Background imageUnemployed Collection: A Hooverville on waterfront of Seattle, Washington, USA, Great Depression, March 1933

A Hooverville on waterfront of Seattle, Washington, USA, Great Depression, March 1933. Grim collections of shacks on vacant lots were cruelly called Hoovervilles after Herbert Hoover

Background imageUnemployed Collection: The breadline, a visible sign of poverty during the Great Depression, USA, 1930s Artist

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

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Jobless New Yorkers selling apples on the pavement, Great Depression, New York, USA, 1930

Jobless New Yorkers selling apples on the pavement, Great Depression, New York, USA, 1930

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1931

Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1931. When George H Bowman Co advertised that it would take on 150 people for Christmas holiday jobs

Background imageUnemployed Collection: Unemployed (Day Laborers at the Port of Hamburg), 1908-1909

Unemployed (Day Laborers at the Port of Hamburg), 1908-1909. Found in the Collection of Kunsthalle, Hamburg



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