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Selling Apples in the Depression

Selling Apples in the Depression
A jobless man sells apples on the streets of New York City in 1932. More than 15 million people, nearly one quarter of the United States work force, were unemployed by 1932, three years after the stock market crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Great Depression in the United States; United States (History)
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