Breadline at McCauley Water Street Mission under Brooklyn Bridge, New York.

This image of a breadline was taken at McCauley Water Street Mission under the Brookln Bridge in New York in between 1930 and 1934. This image shows individuals waiting for food handouts during the Great Depression.

Bread line

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1930 and 1934?]
NOTES: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
SUBJECTS: Bread & soup lines.
PART OF:  Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg. of print) cph 3b37875 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b37875

 

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