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Morris Kantor (1896-1974), Baseball at Night, 1934, American. Oil on linen. 94 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm), Washington, DC/Art Resource, New York, NY.

Summer. 1934. 11 million Americans jobless. 16 million to 18 million on relief. A loaf of bread is 10 cents, a quart of milk five cents. Pork chops are 20 cents a pound, sirloin 29 cents. Women wear mid-calf cotton-print dresses ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog or they make their own from colorful print flour sacks that are free. It is also a dry summer. Exceptionally dry. Millions of tons of topsoil lifts from the Great Plains and obscures the sun as far away as the East Coast. It costs farmers the equivalent of nine bushels of wheat to buy workshoes. The population of California surges.

There are entertainments, of course. Movies. For 25 cents (children on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Therese Southgate, MD

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