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Postman in Snow
Post Office Mural, Independence, Iowa
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"Iowa WPA Artist Robert Tabor: Depression-era Painter from the Midwest" by Roy R. Behrens ©
The Great Depression began in the U.S. with a devastating crash of the stock market on October 24, 1929, a day now infamously known as Black Thursday. Thousands of people lost their investments, and in the aftermath, homes and farms were repossessed, banks failed, and as companies cut back or went out of business completely, millions of Americans became unemployed.
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