The United States during the Great Depression (1933)

Panorama of a 1933 election rally in the USA. Banners with slogans in support of F.D. Roosevelt and his portraits.

A mounted policeman pushes back the crowd.

Faces of rally participants, views of the rally.

Roosevelt's face.

The US national flag flutters.

View of the Capitol building in Washington.

A fireman opens the taps of a water-jet installation.

Washing the walls of the White House and the Capitol with fire hoses.

Jets of water beat upward.

Washing the bas-relief on the facade of the Capitol with fire hoses, Roosevelt's face.

Workers of one of the bars sweep cobwebs and dust from bottles of alcohol after the repeal of Prohibition.

Cleaning the horses harnessed to a cart from dust.

A cart with barrels of alcohol moves off.

Bar workers clean the premises, sweep away cobwebs.

Advertisement of one of the newly opened beer bars.

Filling a beer glass with beer.

Bartender serving customers of a beer bar.

Men drinking beer.

Serving beer to a customer at the bar.

Former US President H. Hoover during a rally.

Roosevelt at home with his family during a family celebration.

Roosevelt's face.

One of the streets of Washington during the meeting of Roosevelt.

Roosevelt responds to greetings from his car.

The car of the newly elected President Roosevelt moves along the streets of Washington.

Views of slums on the working-class outskirts of the USA. Everyday life and everyday life of slum dwellers.

Washed old linen hangs out to dry on a line.

A man washes clothes in dirty river water, garbage and dirt at the washing place.

Police cordon.

Smiling people in the back of a truck.

A policeman armed with a gas weapon.

Faces of unemployed people demonstrating.

Policemen in a fire truck drive up to the place of a protest rally.

Detention of rally participants.

Clash between participants of one of the demonstrations and police in New York, detention of demonstration participants.

A column of participants of the "Hunger March" passes by in late 1932. A column of vans, covered with posters in support of the participants of the "Hunger March", passes by.

Police officers on motorcycles heading to the protest site.

A mounted police officer next to a column of Hunger March participants in late 1932. Cars with posters in support of the Hunger March participants pasted to their bodies.

People on the side of the road with posters in their hands greet the Hunger March participants.

Coffee and hamburgers being distributed to the Hunger March participants.

Columns of Hunger March participants move along the streets of Washington to the Capitol.

One of the columns of Hunger March participants approaches the Capitol building.

View of the Capitol building and the square in front of it during the protest.

Police officers armed with gas weapons observe the progress of the action.

Panorama of the square in front of the Capitol, police cordons and Hunger March participants on the square.

Members of the delegation of Hunger March participants, who were not received by President Hoover, stand in front of the Capitol building, panorama of one of the police cordons.

Views of the Capitol Square during a demonstration of protest against President Hoover's refusal to receive a delegation of participants in the "Hunger March".

A black speaker speaks.

Another speaker speaks at a protest rally.