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One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This ... #13 Young Girl During The Great Depression, 1930s. Image credits: Old-time Photos
The novelist Eudora Welty also photographed families affected by the Great Depression, especially in rural Mississippi, producing a remarkable body of work. [71] In the early 1930s, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905–2002) published her world travel photographs in Vogue, National Geographic, Look, Life, Town & Country, and Harper's Bazaar. [72]
Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa; Carla Liesching (born 1985), visual artist specialising in photography; Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982), visual artist and photographer; Ruth Seopedi Motau (born 1968), professional photographer and photo editor
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
Doreen Spooner (1928–2019), first female photographer on Fleet Street; Marilyn Stafford (1925–2023), American-British photographer and photojournalist; Hannah Starkey (born 1971), staged settings of women in city environments; Jemima Stehli (born 1961), known for her naked self-portraits; Hilary Stock (born 1964), fine art photographer
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...