The market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, which would shape American life for the following decade.

California (CNN)-- The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was noteworthy in terms of both its length and its severity.

The racetrack was one of the few places to gamble in the 1930s, Archive Photos By the time the Great Depression descended on the nation like a bitter cold front, horse racing in the United States ...

Democrats blame Depression on White House WASHINGTON, April 13, 1932 (UP) --Democratic orators, loading party workers with Campaign ammunition, today heaped upon the Hoover administration the ...