THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Photographs: Black Tuesday on Wall Street, the run on the banks, an unemployed man looking for work, a farm foreclosure auction, the Bonus Army, a dust storm in Kansas, Dorothea Lange’s migrant mother, and Roosevelt broadcasting a Fireside Chat. Documents: political cartoons, Depression recipes, a "Chicken for Every Pot" campaign ad, a Little Orphan Annie comic strip, a poster for government housing, a mother’s letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s letter of resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution.