Lecture 1: The End of Prosperity Images

Side view of a Ford roadster. c1923.Copyright by Sales Equipment Company, Detroit.Library of Congress Reproduction Number:LC-USZ62-90279 DLC http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36638

Man loading luggage into the trunk of a Ford coupe; insert of a woman seated behind steering wheel. c1923.Copyright by Sales Equipment Company, Detroit.Library of Congress Reproduction Number:LC-USZ62-69454 DLC http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36894

Map of the Presidential Election of 1928.Credit: Department of Interior http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail340.html

President Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone at Edison's 82nd birthday. Ft. Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929.Credit: Herbert Hoover Library http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail341.html

Hoover CartoonCartoon of Herbert Hoover playing a passive role in addressing the depressionCredit: Library of Congress http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail342.html