Unemployed men sitting outside the Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA, February 1937. Artist: Unknown # 2378243

Unemployed men sitting outside the Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA, February 1937. Artist: Unknown

2-378-243 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Unemployed men sitting outside the Public Library, San Francisco, California, USA, February 1937. Victims of the Great Depression. After several years of recovery from the effects of the stock market crash of 1929, the American economy experienced another recession in 1937.