Dorothea Lange, American (Hoboken, New Jersey 1895 - 1965 San Francisco, California), Unemployment benefits aid begins.

Dorothea Lange, American (Hoboken, New Jersey 1895 - 1965 San Francisco, California), Unemployment benefits aid begins.

Art and Financial Crisis: The Great Depression in the USA through the eyes of Dorothea Lange

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation.

Dorothea Lange, American (Hoboken, New Jersey 1895 - 1965 San Francisco, California)

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2011.

Harvard Art Museums, Modern and Contemporary Art

Harvard Art Museums, 2.2002.704

Photograph, gelatin silver print

English