Depression-Era Breadline On The Bowery

(Image by: Photoworld - via NYCDreamin Archives)

"The depression began settling on the nation in 1930. It's effect on any person during the next several years would depend on his financial resources or his ability to hold a job when those about him were losing theirs. Above is a bread line in New York's Bowery, a scene duplicated in almost every cityy of any size during the depths of the depression."