{"id":1222,"date":"2017-07-11T03:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-media-the-great-depression\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T22:28:21","slug":"primary-source-media-the-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-media-the-great-depression\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source Media: The Great Depression","rendered":"Primary Source Media: The Great Depression"},"content":{"raw":"The wonder of the stock market permeated popular culture in the 1920s. Although it was released during the first year of the Great Depression, the 1930 film High Society Blues<\/i> captured the speculative hope and prosperity of the previous decade. \u201cI\u2019m in the Market for You,\u201d a popular musical number from the film, even used the stock market as a metaphor for love:\u00a0You\u2019re going up, up, up in my estimation, \/\u00a0I want a thousand shares of your caresses, too. \/\u00a0We\u2019ll count the hugs and kisses, \/\u00a0When dividends are due, \/\u00a0Cause I\u2019m in the market for you.<\/em> But, just as the song was being recorded in 1929, the stock market reached the apex of its swift climb, crashed, and brought an abrupt end to the seeming prosperity of the \u201cRoaring \u201820s.\u201d The Great Depression had arrived, and with it, as the following sources chronicle, a rupturing of American life.\r\n

Family Walking on Highway 1936<\/h2>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1000\"]\"Man<\/a> Dorothea Lange, \u201cFamily walking on highway, five children\u201d (June 1938) Works Progress Administration, Library of Congress.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nDuring her assignment as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Dorothea Lange documented the movement of migrant families forced from their homes by drought and economic depression. This family was in the process of traveling 124 miles by foot, across Oklahoma, because the father was unable to receive relief or WPA work of his own due to an illness.\r\n

\u201cBonus Army Routed\u201d (1932)<\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

This short newsreel clip made by British film company Path\u00e9 shows the federal government\u2019s response to the thousands of WWI veterans who organized in Washington DC during the summer of 1932 to form what was called a \u201cBonus Army.\u201d At the demand of attorney general, the marchers were violently removed from government property.<\/p>","rendered":"

The wonder of the stock market permeated popular culture in the 1920s. Although it was released during the first year of the Great Depression, the 1930 film High Society Blues<\/i> captured the speculative hope and prosperity of the previous decade. \u201cI\u2019m in the Market for You,\u201d a popular musical number from the film, even used the stock market as a metaphor for love:\u00a0You\u2019re going up, up, up in my estimation, \/\u00a0I want a thousand shares of your caresses, too. \/\u00a0We\u2019ll count the hugs and kisses, \/\u00a0When dividends are due, \/\u00a0Cause I\u2019m in the market for you.<\/em> But, just as the song was being recorded in 1929, the stock market reached the apex of its swift climb, crashed, and brought an abrupt end to the seeming prosperity of the \u201cRoaring \u201820s.\u201d The Great Depression had arrived, and with it, as the following sources chronicle, a rupturing of American life.<\/p>\n

Family Walking on Highway 1936<\/h2>\n
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Dorothea Lange, \u201cFamily walking on highway, five children\u201d (June 1938) Works Progress Administration, Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During her assignment as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Dorothea Lange documented the movement of migrant families forced from their homes by drought and economic depression. This family was in the process of traveling 124 miles by foot, across Oklahoma, because the father was unable to receive relief or WPA work of his own due to an illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cBonus Army Routed\u201d (1932)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This short newsreel clip made by British film company Path\u00e9 shows the federal government\u2019s response to the thousands of WWI veterans who organized in Washington DC during the summer of 1932 to form what was called a \u201cBonus Army.\u201d At the demand of attorney general, the marchers were violently removed from government property.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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