Bankling » Great Depression http://bankling.com Finance Tips, Savings Calculators, Highest CD Rates and More Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:53:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 It Won’t Get This Bad, Will It? Eerie Photos of the Great Depression http://bankling.com/2009/it-wont-get-this-bad-will-it-eerie-photos-of-the-great-depression/ http://bankling.com/2009/it-wont-get-this-bad-will-it-eerie-photos-of-the-great-depression/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:48 +0000 Jimmy A http://bankling.com/?p=163 If you think this recession is bad, imagine what life was like during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Presented below are my favorite five photos from that era. Hopefully, our current economic situation won’t get this bad. But if it does, at least it will be in color. :)

Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936 (source)

March of the Unemployed in Camden, NJ (source)

Cattle Skull, Badlands, 1936 (source)

No Way Like the American Way (source)

Free Coffee & Donuts for the Unemployed (source)

All pictures were found on Flickr under the 2.0 Creative Commons License, and each links back to the source. Copyright belongs to the original photographer.

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