Administration that was combating rural poverty 'There are a lot of good images in the FSA that people don't know because the same ones get reproduced over and over again,' Mr Pinson told the Times. Many of the photographs feature scenes from the lives of everyday people whose world had been turned upside-down by the Great Depression. The Depression got under way on October 29, 1929 -- a date better known as 'Black Tuesday' - when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted almost 23 per cent, dragging down both and domestic and global economy to disastrous effect. Bleak: Dust bowl refugees photographed along a highway near Bakersfield, California, in 1935 Crisis: In 1932, the unemployment rate was at 24.9 per cent, and millions of people were homeless and living in shantytowns By 1932 the national unemployment rate had soared past 20 per cent, and millions of men and women were homeless, forced to live on the street and forage for scraps in garbage cans. As a result of widespread bank failures, many people lost their jobs and homes, and were forced to move to makeshift camps and shantytowns. Down-and-out: Mother and father and several children of a family of nine living in open field in rough board covering built on old Ford chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Bruceton and Camden, Tennessee Bygone era: A family of eight living in a four-bedroom home in El Monte, California, paying $16.20 rent a month Scores of farmers lost their land after being