Robert Nathan

Robert Nathan

male, deceased (1985)
Peter Kindred, depression, Jewish person, greatdepression, Jewish American, poet
Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet. Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and...
Del Lord

Del Lord

male, deceased (1970)
film actor, Ontario actor, film director, Canadian, actor, greatdepression
Del Lord (October 7, 1894 - March 23, 1970) was a film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films. Lord was born in the...

Keith Murray

male
Barlaston, Staffordshire, Mappin and Webb, 1925 Exposition, Keith Day Pearce Murray, Potteries, Ceramic Artist…depression, greatdepression
Keith Day Pearce Murray (1892 - 1981) was a New Zealand born architect and designer who worked as a ceramics, glass and metalware designer for...
Florence Owens Thompson

Florence Owens Thompson

female, deceased (1983)
migrant mother, cherokee, greatdepression, Photographs, Wall Street Crash of 1929, California Central Valley
Florence Owens Thompson (September 1 1903 - September 16 1983), born Florence Leona Christie, is famous for being the subject of Dorothea Lange's...

John Gilbert

male
Protestant, Bloor, Yonge, Bloor Street, New Democratic Party of Canada MP, member of the Canadian House of Commons…greatdepression
John Gilbert (September 12, 1921 - August 7, 2006) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and jurist. Gilbert was born in Toronto and grew up in a poor...

Ray Lewis

male, deceased (2003)
Ontario athlete, From Hamilton, Ontario, track and field athlete, Olympic competitor for Canada, 1932 Summer Olympics, Commonwealth Games silver medalist…greatdepression
Raymond ("Ray") Gray Lewis, C.M. (October 8, 1910 - November 15, 2003) was a track and field athlete, and the first Canadian-born black Olympic...
Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt

male, deceased (1966)
Memphis, musician, Teoc, African American, guitarist, Tom Hoskins…greatdepression
"Mississippi" John Smith Hurt (July 2, 1892, Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an influential blues...

Charles Darrow

male, deceased (1967)
board game, heater, from Pennsylvania, Salespeople, Board game designer, English American…greatdepression
Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889-August 29, 1967), has been credited, erroneously, as having invented the "Monopoly" board game. Darrow was a...
George W. Jenkins

George W. Jenkins

male, deceased (1996)
from Florida, grocery store, greatdepression, supermarket, Publix, STOCK
George W. Jenkins (Warm Springs, Georgia in 1907- Lakeland, FL 1996). In 1930, despite the Great Depression, Jenkins risked everything he had,...
Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson

male, deceased (1945)
Blind bluesmen, slide, guitar, Slide guitarist, bottleneck, From Beaumont, Texas…Depression-era, greatdepression
"Blind" Willie Johnson (1897-1945) was an African-American singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals....