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The Great Designers logo.

The logo is of a farm house in the Dust Bowl in 1936.http://www.flickr.com/photos/24842486@N07/4375175725/

The Great Designers

The Great Depression Changes America Forever

What Kept America Sane During The Great Depression?

Shawn Drake, Susan Gardner, Mary Norris, Barbara Solomon, & Erin Turner

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Lesson Overview

Low Cost Entertainment

A handmade Monopoly board game from 1933.

Description | Source1974 reprint of the first Batman comic

from 1939. Description | Source

Woody Guthrie Description | SourceContestants awaiting instructions at a dance marathon.

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The Marx Brothers in 1931

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A child with a Depression-era radio.

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Comics/Magazines Board Games Radio

Dance Marathons Music Movies

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