Great Depression website

As I'm sure many people have come to find, there is a very mixed reveiw of the Great Depression. In every view it is seen as a very sad, low point in american history. As some the pictures on the site demonstrate, everything seemed gloomy and looked incredibly disdainful. However at the same time there was optimissum and hope with the New Deal reform projects going into effect and employing many many people. I spent most of my time on the site looking at the pictures. And from picture to picture the mood changed, in some, while there was nothing people seemed in good spirits. In others the well off looked glum and irreverant. I know the american spirit was crushed according to our text book, but some of the pictures, especially of things such as traveling theaters, seemed to be full of smiling children. It was rather shocking to me to see anyone happy and exhilerated during those times, because form everything we can see, even with reforms in place and slowly working, the country was still at the bottom of a very deep dark pit. Another thing that struck me as sad was the pictures of people in a service industry all lined up canning meat. Nearly 20 people were just standing there canning meat, which from that it would seem like there should be millions of jobs available, but knowing the rate of unemployment, i realized how hard it must have been for some to find themselves unemployed, feeding off the emergency relief canned meat, knowing that someone, somewhere had a job just to keep you alive by simply canning meat, which really brought the depression full circle, demonstrating how deep the its influence was on every american. -Zach