Breadline / R.M. 1929. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Breadline / R.M. 1929., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Breadline / R.M. 1929.
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Signed in pencil below the plate and dated 1929, this etching is titled *Breadline* and depicts the queues of hungry people that had become a familiar sight in American cities by that year. The plate, marked "R.M.," is one of the works reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a visual history of the United States with commentary by Alan Brinkley. Breadlines and soup kitchens spread quickly after the stock market crash of October 1929, and printmakers like this one helped record how ordinary people faced hunger in the early Depression.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Etchings 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil below plate. Sasowslay, no. 63. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Bread & soup lines--United States--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,429 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218778 |
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