B/W 1930s slight PAN men in white shirts entering two doors of building / Great Depression

B/W 1931 woman serving food with both hands very quickly at soup kitchen / San Francisco

/girders being swung into position on building under construction, camera on elevator as it rises past girders and skeleton of new building / worker heating and throwing rivets for girders, man walking girders, LS of New York City.

B/W 1935 low angle close up young man with thumb raised hitchhiking

Aerial view of excited people waiting for bars to open after Prohibition is repealed / interior shot of men and woman laughing and cheering as alcohol is poured out of a keg / one man drinks as other man jokingly places a beer mug on his...

Hundreds of workers walking into factory / aerial view of a city at night / people dancing in nightclub / group of men and women raising glasses at night club table / costumed dancers on stage.

Worker inside a barrel factory shaping outside of a wooden keg / wooden barrels rolling down an assembly line / workers allow barrels to roll into the streets / truck carrying barrels of alcohol / government agents taking axe to whiskey...

Alcohol distillery in forest explodes blowing smoke and spilling debris into the surrounding forest / smoke clears and men both uniformed and plain clothed walk into the bomb site / men climb through the debris searching through the...

Men working with mining equipment on farm / rocks fly down a mining trough towards waiting workers / people pan for gold Miners near Cincinnati find gold in creek on November 09, 1933 in Owensville, Ohio

Hundreds of German middle class workers walking through downtown Berlin, happy, smiling and greeting friends / workers board trains. German workers abandon strike and return to work on December 01, 1930 in Berlin, Germany

/ Building front sign, reads MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION / Interior, pan of women and men standing in line / Men punch time cards, punch clock / pan of people standing in line on January 01, 1959 (Footage by Getty Images)

B/W 1931 Mother Jordan serving food quickly with both hands at soup kitchen / San Francisco

B/W 1931 men pouring pots of stew into containers, Mother Jordan starts serving at soup kitchen

/ huge containers of scrap metal in the middle of a city / views of scrap metal loaded onto the back of boats headed to Japan / scrap metal was later used to make shells in WWII. American scrap metal purchased by Japan on November 05,...

B/W 1936 REAR VIEW couple watching fully loaded car pulling into migrant worker camp

B/W 1931 Mother Jordan helping man take off shirt + put on new one at soup kitchen

Hydroelectric plant, men cleaning equipment and mopping floor / completed, operational hydroelectric dam / men working atop electric distribution tower - transformer - electric grid / electric distribution project, electric cable being...

Running water from pipe into gutter.

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Title card: "Head of New York Stock Exchange Discusses Raids" / "Editor's Note: In this important statement, President Richard Whitney tells what Exchange has done about short selling in Wall Street and predicts restoration of...

Title card: "Senator Pat Harrison endorses Hoover banking plan to restore confidence" / title card: "Editor's note: In this important statement, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee sounds a clarion call to all...

Title card: "Owen D. Young Presents Medal to Swope for Employment Plan" / WS large NBC microphone in front of tuxedoed Young presenting Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, with gold medal from National Institute of Social...