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A Department employee remembers it this way: "Each morning, when the doors were opened at street level, several hundred claimants would charge up three flights of wooden stairs at full speed in a race to be first in line for their unemployment insurance payments. To the uninitiated, the noise was very much like the rumbling of a severe earthquake."
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Unemployment Insurance - San Francisco, 1938
This Dorothea Lange photo shows a line of men inside a State employment service office, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open.
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