20 Rare Photos Taken In Massachusetts During The Great Depression
By Sophia
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Published June 15, 2016
There’s nothing like a set of old photographs to pull you back into the past. Check out these incredible shots from the 1930s that illustrate the lives that our parents and grandparents once lived.
1. A second-hand plumbing supply store in Brockton.
2. Commuters waiting for the bus home in Lowell.
3. Headlines posted in a street corner window of a local newspaper office in Brockton.
4. Children gathered outside the tenement district in Brockton.
5. A farming woman displaying homemade jelly for sale near Northampton.
6. Locals watching a tourist boat arrive from Boston in Provincetown.
7. Salvaging onions after a hurricane in Hadley.
8. Two older gentlemen taking a rest outside of a shop in Provincetown.
9. Heading to the beach is a cheap and fun reprieve from the toil of daily life. Bathers relax on the shores of Provincetown.
10. These are just five out of a total of 11 children who lived in a small, cramped house in Quincy.
11. Officer William Green, of Raynham lived on a farm with his mother and fifteen cows. Mr. Green had six children and worked as a policeman at nearby Camp Edwards.
12. The Forgetta family were Italian vegetable farmers in Andover. The oldest daughter (at the piano) and Mr. Forgetta also worked in a nearby textile mill when they could.
13. A store going out of business in Lowell. Note the "Out We Go" signs.
14. The New Bedford waterfront area.
15. A roadside market in Greenfield.
16. Children playing in the housing projects in Holyoke.
17. A father reading to his children in Williamstown.
18. Picnicking on the Mohawk Trail and reading the Sunday paper.
19. Writing cards home to the folks while vacationing in the Mohawk Trail region.
20. Odds and ends for sale in a small wayside shop in the Berkshires.
Does anyone in your family have stories or pictures from this era?
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