First ever Major League Baseball All-Star game at Comiskey Park / This historic game occurred during the height of the Great Depression and featured the first home run hit in an All-Star game performed by baseball legend Babe Ruth.

Running water from pipe into gutter.

Running water from pipe into gutter.

Running water from pipe into gutter.

Railroad children HD

freezing hand warming up

Safe

Bare feet on frozen ground

man walk on railway

Hand gives dollar to another man

Sad young woman drinking coffee at home

crisis, chart economy in decline

MONTAGE Factory production grinding to a halt, workers abandoning facilities, and the gates being closed behind them / United Kingdom

1937 PAN Line of men in suits and tattered overcoats with hands in pockets / United Kingdom

MONTAGE Unemployed men walking and begging, and abandoned mines and factories / United Kingdom

Man standing in crowd in Arizona fruit field seeking work / long rows of crops / Philippine and Mexican migrant workers work the lettuce fields / white workers inside the shed packing the lettuces. Dust Bowl migrants look for work in...

Field after field of farmland / scenes of new boundaries and crop rotation / riveted soil fields in contrasting colors / suited farmers debate new style / machine clearing soil. New farming techniques save fields after Dust Bowl on April...

/ Wall Street filled with cars and people / CU Wall Street sign / stock brokers bidding on the New York Stock Exchange / CU ticker tape machine / light board with stock prices / panicked looking stockbrokers. Recession causes stock...

Animated map of Tennessee, Tennessee River, Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA project, Wilson Dam, Norris Dam, proposed dam across border / surveyors atop large earth mound, one man leaping across gulley / surveyor working atop mound /...

Migrant worker remembers the lush fields of his farmland / Farmers processing corn syrup / pan of fertile landscape / CU of farmer talking about his land Migrant worker after the Dust Bowl on April 02, 1942 in Iowa (Footage by Getty...

Sun beating down on soil eroded land / dry crops and muddy water / barren hilltops. Soil erosion destroys crops and forestry after Dust Bowl on April 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)

Farmers leave good farm because of Dust Bowl economy / Healthy cattle and the occasional pig milling or laying about / driving past nice houses and maintained farms / crop fields, horse and cart carrying straw / filling the hay loft /...

Title card: "What do those who disagree with Technocracy think of it? Floyd W. Parsons, engineer and editor, voices his objections" / CU Parsons speaking declaring that Technocracy would abolish gold standard, private property and set up...

Title card: "Former Governor Alfred E Smith" / three shots of Smith standing at podium on stage of Radio City Music Hall speaking during a religious service marking the beginning of the Holy Year, SOT saying it is duty of society to help...