great depression in pennsylvania
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Great Depression in Pennsylvania
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Wannamaker’s in Philly
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Centre County• Within four years of the stock
market crash of 1929, national unemployment reached 25%, but in Pennsylvania it was a staggering 37% pushing 1.4 million people into joblessness and poverty.
• By the end of the Great Depression, Centre County lost a quarter of all its business establishments including four of its five laundries, it's only sporting goods store, and six ice cream parlors.
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Coal Production
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Philadelphia
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Pittsburgh
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Governor meets with miners
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Southern Banks Closes Doors
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Public Auction of Farm in York, PA
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Newly Paved Road in 1936
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Pittsburgh Courier
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CCC
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Pine Dam Construction
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Mifflin County
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Allegheny National Forest, 1935
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Wyoming State Forest, 1933
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WPA• From 1935 to 1943, Works Progress Administration workers built:• • 650,000 miles of roads• • 78,000 bridges• • 125,000 civilian and military buildings• • 800 airports (built, improved or enlarged)• • 700 miles of airport runway• Workers also were responsible for:• • 900 million hot lunches served to school children• • 1,500 nursery schools operated• • 225,000 musical concerts presented to 150 million people• • 475,000 art works 276 books and 701 pamphlets created
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CCC Camps