GREAT DEPRESSION

GREAT DEPRESSION. Entering the term "Great Depression" in the entry finder of this encyclopedia introduces the reader to the vast impact this period of American history had on Dubuque. (The term will turn up "in red type" over and over again in the finder.)

Photographic evidence of the impact this period had on Dubuque was collected by John VACHON. Several of his photographs, stored in the Library of Congress, follow:

Looking through the garbage dump for useable items.

Shanties of people who lived near the city dump

Young boys line up at the city mission for soup to take home.

Homeless men line up before their clothes are fumigated, and they are offered showers.

The following three interviews compiled by the WPA are also available. These tell the personal views of those who lived during this time.

1) GREAT DEPRESSION: DEAF AND UNEMPLOYED IN DUBUQUE: THE DIMARCOS REMEMBER THE GREAT DEPRESSION

2) GREAT DEPRESSION: LOSING THE BUSINESS: THE DONNERS RECALL THE GREAT DEPRESSION

3) GREAT DEPRESSION: THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAS CHANGED PEOPLE'S OUTLOOK: THE BEUSCHERS REMEMBER THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN DUBUQUE, IOWA