Unemployed men on relief work arrive at Blackboy camp in 1930.
Note how the men are dressed in suits and ties. This was the standard dress.
Crowd of men outside Bray's store picking up their food and supplies after receiving their dole tickets during the
Depression - Coffs Harbour, NSW
Dole queue during Depression - Coffs Harbour, NSW
A group of Depression relief workers, Concord
Man living in a tent, the Domain,
Sydney, during the Depression
of the 1930s
A MAN WHO MADE A LIVING IN THE DEPRESSION BY MAKING AND SELLING PAPER FLOWERS.
HE WAS KNOWN ONLY AS THE POPPY MAKER. HE IS LEAVING HIS HUT WHICH WAS ON JAMES CUMMING'S DAIRY
LAND.
Man with carved wooden horse, toys made by unemployed
men of Randwick and Coogee, Christmas 1934
Unemployed match-seller's sign: “Please help me to turn the corner". 2 years out of work.
Matches 1d per box. Poverty in the land of plenty. SOS! UAP”. References from Honble. J.M. Dunningham MLA, J.T. Jennings MHR, Ald. A.H. Moverly MLA, Ald. S.J. Paine, Mayor
of Randwick.
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS SAWING WOOD DURING THE DEPRESSION.
Location: AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA; KINGOWER DISTRICT;
William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home into the street during the Depression
Dole Queue outside the Oddfellows Hall, Church St, Charing Cross, 1936