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stock market crash of 1929: Black Tuesday New York Stock Exchange, late 1920s
view archival footage of the impoverished American population in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929
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view archival footage of the impoverished American population in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929
“The unemployed, the soup kitchens, the grinding poverty, and the despair”—the worldwide...
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stock market crash of 1929: Black Tuesday
Panicked workers flooding the streets of New York City following the Black Tuesday...
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New York Stock Exchange, late 1920s
View of the New York Stock Exchange on an active day in the late 1920s. Share prices...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Black Thursday stock market crash
People gathering on the steps of the building across from the New York Stock Exchange...
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