A demonstration by unemployed people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Buildings in an area. Men seated on the steps of a building. Some of the men sleeping on the floor inside the building. Children seated at a table eating food. They demand immediate action by the state to provide relief funds to the unemployed suffering from the Great Depression.
Supply of free water in drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas during Great Depression. Tank cars carrying water in the area. A banner on a tank car reads: 'Free Water from Kansas City, Missouri to Louisburg, Kansas'. People gather to have water. A tank car at a rail road.
Dairymen protest in Mukwonago, Wisconsin during Great Depression. They protest to maintain a higher price level for their product. Men gather outside a building. Milk containers being loaded on a truck. Containers on the ground. Men spilling milk from a truckload along a road to reduce supply and influence price.
Damage due to a dust storm in the Midwest United States during the dust bowl and the Great Depression. Farms and buildings are covered with dustbowl dust. Dust piled high up the side of a house. Men digging away dust with bare hands Cattle on a farm. Government workers arriving towards the cattle farm and passing dead cattle. They arrive to buy the cattle. They discuss amongst themselves.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, United States. He inspects the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps. He shake hands with the young men there. The President seated at a table with some of the men.. They eat food. Tents in the background. The President talking to the CCC boys during the Great Depression.
The 73rd U.S. Congress ends its session in Washington DC, United States. Billions of dollars are voted for the operation of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs to aid the country during the Great Depression. Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol framed by trees. Wheat harvesting combines at work on a field. Scenes of men getting back to work. Men cutting down trees in logging operations as part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) or Civilian Conservation Corps work (CCC). A crowd of men walking into work on grounds of a plant of factory. Woman fills white cloth bags with coins. Men gathered at a stock or commodity exchange. A biplane aircraft taking off from a snow covered runway. A new ship being launched from skids at a shipyard. The ship underway. Women workers seated at a liquor distillery assembly line put covers on liquor bottle tops. Bartender pours draft beer into glasses in a bar (soon after end of prohibition) and serves patrons. Men and women gathered at a bar drinking alcohol. U.S. Congress in session and view of Speaker of the House, Henry Thomas Rainey, standing and using gavel at podium or dais.
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