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What Did Social Welfare Look Like on the Eve of the Depression?

we had a series of settlement houses, 1890-1920
Workmans' Compensation
Mothers Allowance
Pension Act of 1927
unemployment relief act, 1930, Federal

Unemployed men working for relief line-up to enter the Mess room for a meal, Relief Work Project NO. 28, National Archives Neg. no. PA35232.





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