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Detroit, July 1930.

During the Depression, unemployment struck the nation’s large industrial cities with particular ferocity. In Detroit, automobile production dropped by half. Nearly one-third of all families there had no breadwinner. This unemployed worker took to the streets in search of work.

Source: Milton (Pete) Brooks, Detroit News, July 1930,—Detroit News.

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