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[Crowd of unemployed] / Reginald Marsh. – Historic Print

[Crowd of unemployed] / Reginald Marsh., [c1932] — historic drawing
[Crowd of unemployed] / Reginald Marsh., [c1932]. Historic drawing from the Work & Industry collection.

(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 [Crowd of unemployed] / Reginald Marsh., a historic drawing rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Crowd of unemployed] / Reginald Marsh.

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Marsh drew this crowd of unemployed men as an illustration for the September 1932 issue of *Fortune*, the business magazine Henry Luce had launched in 1930, and the print reproduces that drawing in color. Marsh was known for dense, restless street scenes of New York, and here he turns that eye on the Depression, packing the figures tightly together so that the viewer feels the weight of numbers rather than any single face. The image is a useful record of how the national unemployment crisis was pictured for middle-class readers of the period.

Created / published[c1932]
Medium1 photomechanical reproduction : color.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1930-1940.Photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940.Drawings Reproductions 1930-1940.
NotesB164555 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Fortune, vol. 6, 1932 Sept., p. 18. Reproduction of drawing by Reginald Marsh.
SubjectsUnemployed--United States--1930-1940. Crowds--United States--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,155 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216939

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