- Relief workers digging a storm-water canal.
If there are people present, how are they dressed?
- They were dressed like a farmer.
What can you tell from their facial expressions or posture?
- It was pretty hard digging
If there are no people, describe the conditio.n of any human- made objets
- N/A
What else of interest is happening in the situation?
- Standing and helping other workers.
What unique thing about this image did the photographer capture?
- The hardships of the workers just to have money for their family.
The various different types of work people engaged in during the Great Depression:
-Labor Workers
-Slaves/Maids
-Jobs at Docks
-Factory Workers
-Farmers
Plight of children during the Depression:
-Childrens wont be able to go to school
-They wont be able to enjoy their childhood
-Children were hungry and without proper clothing
-Malnourished children reached 90%
-Children went without shoes and warm clothes for the winter
For many people, life was a daily struggle. At the peak of the Depression, 25% of the nation's workers -- one out of four -- were unemployed. No job meant no money to pay the mortgage or buy food and clothes for the family.
Times were hard whether you lived in a city or on a farm, whether you were an adult or a child. Families unable to pay the mortgage lost their homes and farms.
As a result, about 250,000 young people were homeless in the early years of the Depression. Many became nomads, traveling the highways and railways.
