This is a picture of a family during the Great Depression. As shown, this family is living under a tent-like house. The reason for this is because during the Great Depression, people could not afford enough money to buy anything, whether it was food, homes, or clothes.
The Santa Ana Register was a famous daily newspaper that was published in Santa Ana in California. In this Santa Ana Register newspaper, it articulates how many people died or were suffering due to the cause of the Great Depression. The woman shown on the front page was one of the many people who died during the Great Depression. Born in 1890, 45- year old Catherine Riley froze to death in her home on Christmas day in 1935 because of paucity of money for fuel.
As you can see, this is a picture of a poor family with no food or money. The mother has no money to buy food, clothes, or a house for herself and her children. This is what the Great Depression was about, stocks crashed so that people did not have money to afford what they needed to survive. Look closely at the lines on the woman's face. It's stress and hunger. Try to identify other things to see what the Great Depression did to people.