With falling prices for crops and other farm commodities rural families, found it harder and harder to get by in the 1920s. The farm economic crisis would only grow worse as the grip of the Great Depression tightened on the country in the years that followed. The sweeping government programs of the New Deal provided aid for distressed families, like the family pictured here, giving them hope and a future.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1929
Identifer: location E440 p13
