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Photo credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Wikimedia – A Thanksgiving dinner in the Great Depression was anything but depressing.

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Photo credit: Lewis Wickes Hine/Library of Congress, Dorothea Lange/Wikipedia – Recipes from the Great Depression to make today.

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