This political cartoon shows a family canoeing their “Good Ship Vacation” through the rocky rapids of vacation costs. After the crash of the stock market in October, 1929, the United States entered a period of severe economic decline. By the 1930s, people who earlier could have afforded a vacation could no longer do so. By 1933, about one-third of U.S banks had failed, leaving people without their savings or any financial safety net.
It Ain’t the Heat!. Greenfield Recorder, ca. 1930. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l05-174/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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