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Author Clarke, Hugh V. (Hugh Vincent), 1919-1996

Title The broke and the broken : life in the Great Depression / Hugh V. Clarke
Published Spring Hill, Qld. : Boolarong, 1982

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'BOOL  338.542 Cla/Bat  AVAILABLE
 WATERFT BUSINESS  338.542 Cla/Bat  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 103 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Summary Publisher's description: This book recreates a period in our history between two catastrophic wars as it follows the struggle of one family to emerge from the almost universal poverty which blanketed Australia during the dark days of the Depression. The story moves through Mulgowie, Gatton, Haden to Toowoomba before reaching Brisbane in the Depths of the economic crisis of 1930
Notes Economic depressions. Australia, 1929-1935. Personal observations (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0608572)
Subject Clark family.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia -- Queensland.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- 1922-1945
Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- 1928-1935
Australia -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585 -- 1929-1939
Australia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736 -- 1928-1935
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0908175434 (paperback)