I went and visited the BLS site today and came up with this spreadsheet. Within it is this graph (which I can't embed? Hey ct, plz fix!).
I can't find data for job losses in the Great Depression and the Recession in 1937. Anyone know where to get that? I can also do one of unemployment rate but I'm wondering if there's a better source for that than the BLS.
Also, I'm happy to share the spreadsheet if people would like to work with it or copy it. Just send me an email - kevin@ie.suberic.net.
Update: palantir provided a photobucket version of the graph. Note that it won't update as the data changes. See the comments for it.