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  1. Catherine of Henneberg. Catherine of Henneberg ( German: Katharina von Henneberg; c. 1334, in Schleusingen – 15 July 1397, in Meissen) was a Countess of Henneberg by birth and from 1347 by marriage Margravine of Meissen, Landgravine of Thuringia, etc. She was the wife of Margrave Frederick the Severe of Meissen.

    • Count Henry IV of Henneberg-Schleusingen
    • circa 1334, Schleusingen
    • How The Photo Was Taken
    • The Real ‘Migrant Mother’
    • Life After The Famous Photo

    “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother as if drawn by a magnet,” Lange told Popular Photography magazine in 1960. She had spotted a sign for the migrant workers’ campsite driving north on Highway 101 through San Luis Obispo County, some 175 miles north of Los Angeles. Bad weather had destroyed the local pea crop, and the pickers were...

    Then in 1978, a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Beenewspaper. She was the mother in the famous “Migrant Mother” photo, Thompson said—and she wanted to set the record straight. In an Associated Press article that followed, titled “Woman Fighting Mad Over Famous Depression Photo,” Thompson told a report...

    The family kept moving after Nipomo, following farm work from one place to another, and Florence would have three more children. After World War II, she settled in Modesto, California and married George Thompson, a hospital administrator. By 1983, five years after claiming her identity as the “Migrant Mother,” Thompson was living alone in a trailer...

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  3. Apr 26, 2024 · Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.

  4. Mar 28, 2008 · REAL AND IMAGINED CAUSES. The worldwide Depression of the 1930s was an economic event of unprecedented dimensions. There had been no downturn of its magnitude or duration before, and there has been none since. It stands as a unique failure of the industrial economy. Economic activity in the United States declined from the middle of 1929 through ...

  5. Aug 1, 2014 · This chapter surveys the historiography of the Great Depression, as understood by economic historians and economists. The survey is organized chronologically, and covers contemporary explanations of the Depression, the seminal works in the field, and recent research on new topics, including evaluations of specific Hoover Administration policies.

    • Daniel A. Schiffman
    • 2014
  6. Oct 29, 2009 · The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. At its peak, the U.S. unemployment rate topped 20 percent.

  7. The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.

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