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06. WORKING WOMAN

06.01.01 / Flowers bring joy (woman with basket), (Advent)
[Photo taken: Hanover, December 1930]

06.01.02 / Flowers bring joy
[Photo taken: Georgstraße, Hanover, March 1931]

06.02 / Buy matches, everyone needs them
[Photo taken: Seidenhaus Koopmann, Georgstraße, Hanover, April/May 1932]

06.03 / In the dark you see nothing
[Photo taken: Central Station, under the bridge, Hanover, between March and June 1933].

06.04 / The team
It is arduous to bring the cart with the little that the people still had to sell to the weekly market in town. A draught horse was already a luxury. The radical reduction in benefits in the years since 1931 had hit women particularly hard. Unemployed wives were only granted unemployment benefits after a thorough means test. According to the emergency decree of June 1932, the unemployed received little more than ten Reichsmarks a week.
(Wiechers, Hans-Peter, in: Harte Zeiten. Menschen in Hannover 1930–1933, Springe 2016)
[Photo taken: Hanover, May 1931]
(Wiechers, Hans-Peter, in: Harte Zeiten. Menschen in Hannover 1930–1933, Springe 2016)
[Photo taken: Hanover, May 1931]

06.05 / The Dairywoman
[Photo taken: Pavillonstraße, Hanover, March 1931]

06.06 / The sweepings

06.07.01 / The secret
[Photo taken: Hanover, June 1932]

06.07.02 / The secret
[Photo taken: Hanover, June 1932]

06.08 / "There"
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]

06.08.01 / "You mean"
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]

06.09 / "I don't care if they get it. Mine has already been unemployed for 3 years ..."
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]

06.10 / Hung too high
[Photo taken: Hanover, December 1930]

06.11 / The flimsy things
[Photo taken: Hanover, between November 1932 and March 1933]

06.12 / Market women
[Photo taken: Frankfurt/Main, August 1930]

06.13 / A nob
[Photo taken: Hanover, August 1930]

06.14.01 / Market women walk to the train station (journey home)
[Photo taken: Hanover, March/April 1932]

06.14.02 / Market women walk to the train station (journey home)
[Photo taken: Hanover, March/April 1932]

06.14.03 / Market women walk to the train station (journey home)
[Photo taken: Hanover, March/April 1932]

06.14.04 / Market women walk to the train station (journey home)

06.14.05 / Market women walk to the train station (journey home)

06.15.01 / Grandma watches
[Photo taken: Hanover, April 1931]

06.15.02 / The view into the pram
[Photo taken: Hanover, April 1931]

06.16 / Shopping in felt shoes

06.17 / Before Christmas – paper flowers
[Photo taken: Hanover, December 1930]
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