The storefront sign reads “Free Soup, Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed.”
Japanese Internee Card for Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone
- 02/1931
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This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Information Agency.
National Archives Identifier: 541927
Full Citation: Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone; 02/1931; Records of the U.S. Information Agency, Record Group 306. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/unemployed-men-queued-outside-a-depression-soup-kitchen-opened-in-chicago-by-al-capone/, January 30, 2026]
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