A photograph of a bank run in Japan during the Showa Financial Crisis. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of the Fifteenth Bank, also known as the Kazoku Bank, which became bankrupt during the Showa Financial Crisis. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot (right) shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which worsened the Great Depression and devastated Japan’s silk industry, among many other such international manufacturing concerns. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of men waiting in line at a free soup kitchen in Chicago in 1931. The kitchen in question was owned and operated by Al Capone, a notorious gangster. Source: Public Domain
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