Rural Times in the Great Depression

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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The Great Depression began on Black Tuesday on 29 October 1929 and precipitated the most severe economic slump in US history.  Unemployment rose to 25% as food prices were slashed upto 60% ... great suffering spread like dust in a wind storm.

See photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection.