Economic Times

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immigration to USA and canada | post 1800 immigrants | arrival | settling in and moving west | asian immigration | african americans | hispanic immigration | the native americans
Italian immigrant children...beautiful yet sad...they are so innocent they probably couldnt ever imagine they would working in factories with horrid health conditions to earn some money to help thier familes. Tough times then...
photos by Berenice Abbott
Court of the First Model Tenement, 12th Street and 1st Avenue, New York, 1936, by Berenice Abbott
During most of the 1930s, African Americans found it all but impossible to find jobs of any kind in agriculture or industry. The father of this impoverished family, photographed in 1937 by Lewis Hine, was a miner who lost his job in the Scott’s Run area of West Virginia. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
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No Money at All: 1936
August 1936 "Part of an impoverished family of nine on the New Mexico highway- Depression refugees from Iowa" Photo by Dorothea Lange