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1933 - In this animated film, a dog is bathed by his mother, then fends off a bully.

1930s - Traffic periodically interrupts a pickup game of baseball played by young boys on a Chicago street.

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1937 - A campaign song set to the tune of the Marine Hymn is performed at a Fusion Party rally for Mayor La Guardia.

1930s - Men walk into a factory in Detroit to begin the day's work during the Great Depression in America.

1930 - US Army veterans lineup in New York City for special loans, some covering their faces.

1930 - Crowds on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue include the unemployed alongside the wealthy during the Great Depression.

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1934 - Laborers on strike are gathered at an underground train station.

1933 - In this animated film, animals sing in a shanty town where children jump rope and a couple takes a ride on a dachshund dressed as a taxi.

1932 - Children line up to get milk and food at a social welfare store during the Great Depression.

1930s - Men walk into a factory in Detroit to begin the day's work during the Great Depression in America.

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1937 - Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore shares his optimistic view of prosperity coming to the nation within the year.

1930 - The unemployed masses of men and women, black and white, wait on long lines at a city bureau to compete for jobs in New York during the Great Depression.

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MONTREAL - 1934 - People leave work and get home by car or bus in Montreal, Canada.

1930s - Men looking for work enter a factory during the Great Depression in America.

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1937 - People enjoy Union Square in New York City.

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1937 - Mayor La Guardia and Governor Lehman march in an American Legion parade with military officers.

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1937 - Leis are worn by those in attendance of the launching ceremony for the USS Honolulu, which includes Mayor La Guardia and his wife, US Navy admirals and Hawaiian dignitaries.

1934 - Thanks to the New Deal's Federal Deposit Insurance policy, depositors are guaranteed their money's safety for the first time during the Great Depression (narrated in 1959).

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1937 - Members of the American Legion hold enormous American flags and a marching band plays in a New York City parade.

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1937 - Exteriors of Tammany Hall in New York City.

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1934 - Men on strike in New York City read newspapers, go to bars, and travel the sidewalks.

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1937 - Policemen and New York Yankees parade at Yankee Stadium for Mayor La Guardia.

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1934 - Men on strike read newspapers together on the sidewalks of New York City.

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1937 - Civilians of all ages attend the launching ceremony for the USS Honolulu, where a US Navy admiral talks to kids.

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1937 - Mayor La Guardia gives a speech explaining how good city government can be run by taking politics out of the job.

1935 - A young couple can afford a model home thanks to the National Housing Act.

1937 - Mayor La Guardia gives a speech explaining how good city government can be run by taking politics out of the job.

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1939 - The New York Housing Authority builds public housing in Queensbridge.

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1930s - Trucks and cars drive through the slums in New York City.

1930s - A long line of people is seen waiting outside the Chicago Relief Administration office during the Great Depression in America.

1930s - Trucks and cars drive through the slums in New York City.

1932 - Police quell a communist protest for the unemployed outside New York's City Hall.

1930s - Cars drive past row houses in Cleveland Ohio during the Great Depression.

1930s - A neighborhood in an industrial part of Cleveland, Ohio show American poverty and pollution.

1930s - Policemen, including some on horses, quell a communist demonstration in New York.

1933 - Armed guards escort Al Capone at prison, and other gangsters are also chaperoned.

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1930s - Oil barrels, pipe and lumber are stockpiled outside a warehouse.

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1937 - The sons of the American Legion, Santa Claus, Mayor La Guardia and Governor Lehman appear in a New York City parade.

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1934 - A shoe shiner keeps at his work while men on strike gather on a city street corner nearby.

1934 - Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes sets off the first blast in a major New Deal housing project in the slums of Atlanta, Georgia (narrated in 1959).

1933 - Armed farmers stand guard to protect shipments of produce to get past farmers on strike in Sioux City, Iowa.

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1937 - Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and War Secretary Woodring share their hopes for the New Year.

1930 - Poor men receive bread and soup on a breadline in an American city during the Great Depression.

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1930s - People walk and drive along a lazy street in a rural town.

1933 - In this animated film, a dog steals another one's girl in a club, then beats up the piano player.

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1934 - Men on strike exchange words on a New York City sidewalk.

1939 - The New York Housing Authority builds public housing in Queensbridge.

1935 - Construction workers, builders, brick layers, and carpenters long out of work during the Great Depression finally get jobs putting up new housing.