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Depression Era Bread Line As Thousands Line Up For Aid

Public Domain Stock Footage Depression Era Bread Line As Thousands Line Up For Aid

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keywords: depression era, bread line, breadline, soup kitchen, hooverville, shanty town

Synopsis: Hundreds of unemployed New Yorkers in a bread line seeking food...(read more)

  • Date: 1930
  • Duration: 00:00:31
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Depression Era Bread Line As Thousands Line Up

Depression Era Bread Line As Thousands Line Up For Aid

Scenes of men in a depression soupline or breadline in New York City in 1930. Shows homeless, unemployed and jobless men receiving coffee and loaves of bread furnished by charity organizations during the great depression of the 1930s. Soup lines, bread lines, and food lines are common sights during this era.