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The Great Depression
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 1930's Dust Bowl 
 A brief description of the Dust Bowl in the Oklahoma Panhandle community of Boise City, Cimarron County, with pictures of "Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night." Excerpted from The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression by Paul Bonnifield. On the website of the Cimarron Heritage Center in Boise City, Oklahoma. http://www.ccccok.org/museum/dustbowl.html Topics: Agriculture, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Weather Last updated Aug 20, 2009 Alternatives for Distressed Banks and the Panics of the Great Depression
This December 2007 research paper "investigates whether the [banking] panics [during the Great Depression] resulted in the failure and liquidation of banks that might otherwise have been able to pursue a less disruptive resolution strategies such as merging with another institution or suspending operations and recapitalizing." Discusses financial situations of banks that failed and banks that survived, and different types of resolution strategies. From the Federal Reserve Board. http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2008/200807/200807abs.html Topics: Finance, United States History Last updated Oct 28, 2008 An American Exodus: Displacement in the 1930's
Brief "documentation, in photographs and text, of the mass migrations of the 1930's caused by changes within the regionally varied agricultural traditions throughout the country." It discusses the work of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer Paul Schuster Taylor. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/document/exodus/exodus.html Topics: Agriculture, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 The Dust Bowl
An exhibit "featuring Documentary Photographs from the Farm Security Administration file and Companion Photographs taken in the late 1970s by Bill Ganzel," with "texts adapted from oral history interviews with Dust Bowl Survivors." Includes learning activities for students and lesson guides for teachers. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/ Topics: Agriculture, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Dust Bowl Days
Lesson plans for teaching students about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression "through photographs, songs and interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl." Designed for grades three to six. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=300 Topics: Agriculture, History, Lesson Plans, Photograph Collections: History, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Photographs
This online collection documents projects that were established in King County, Washington state, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) program, a relief operation started in 1933 as part of the New Deal. Offers an essay on the program and a database of photographs featuring street construction, bridge building, sewer laying projects, park and playing field improvements, and other construction, repair, and improvement projects. Searchable. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. http://content-dev.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/ Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History Last updated Feb 23, 2005 The Great Depression
Questions and answers about the Great Depression, "a severe, world-wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on 'Black Thursday', October 24, 1929." Topics include the unemployment rate during the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program and its "alphabet agencies," and related material about the Great Depression. From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/depres24.html Topics: United States History Last updated Oct 12, 2009 Hoovervilles in Seattle
An online exhibit devoted to the clusters of makeshift packing box shacks erected in Seattle after the stock market crash of 1929. Features images of documents such as fliers distributed by the homeless, petitions, reports, excerpts from articles, and the inaugural addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes explanatory notes about the documents, photographs, and a bibliography. From the Seattle Municipal Archives. http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/Hoover/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Presidents by Name, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Sep 3, 2008 Looking Back at the Crash of '29
Special feature from 1999 recounting the history of the U.S. stock market crash in October 1929. Provides images of The New York Times front page and archived articles from the time period. From the website for The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html Topics: Finance, United States History Last updated Oct 11, 2005 Migrant Mother: The Story as Told by Her Grandson
This website from a grandson of Florence (Owens) Thompson, the person in the 1936 Dorothea Lange photograph "Migrant Mother" taken in Nipomo, California, recounts the Great Depression history of the woman pictured and her family. Also includes a gallery of six photos by Lange. http://www.migrantgrandson.com/ Topics: Families, United States History Last updated Apr 23, 2009 NewDeal75
Developed for the 75th anniversary of the New Deal in 2008, "the mission of NewDeal75 is to heighten public awareness and appreciation of America's New Deal experience." The site features brief introductions to the "series of social and economic programs enacted during the Great Depression by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration" and its legacy, and links to related sites. From a group of organizations associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. http://www.newdeal75.org/ Topics: Presidents by Name, United States History Last updated Dec 21, 2007 Photographing the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression
A brief biography of the photographer and a discussion of her work photographing the American South. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/am485_98/coe/photofrnt.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, United States History Last updated May 9, 2002 Picturing California's Migrant Children: Orville Goldner's Photographic Trek of 1940
An online photography exhibit with an accompanying essay about the "children, their schools, and the living conditions [of] the 350,000 impoverished migrant workers who came to California during the mid to late 1930's." From Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. http://www.csuchico.edu/lspr/migrant/splash.html Topics: Agriculture, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Emigration & Immigration, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Nov 17, 2004 Picturing the 1930s
In this teaching resource, "[l]earn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People." Features artwork, photos, newsreels, and other material about 1930s history, with which users can create a documentary movie. Includes a FAQ, movie-making tutorial, and other help documentation. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/ Topics: United States History Last updated May 5, 2009 Portrait of America: Survey Graphic in the Thirties
"An anthology of articles from Survey Graphic, a magazine which, in the 1930s, provided a public forum for discussions about unemployment, labor unrest, race relations, healthcare, and technological change." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/survey/home.html Topics: Social Issues, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Riding the Rails
Brief essay about the "more than two million men and perhaps 8,000 women [who] became hoboes" during the Great Depression. Includes illustrations, a short list of people who rode the rails and later became famous, and an oral history from one man who became a hobo during this period. From Wessels Living History Farm, a project devoted to the history of American agriculture. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_07.html Topics: Transportation, United States History Last updated Aug 1, 2007 Riding the Rails
"At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America." Special Features contains the stories of seven teenage hobos, hobo songs from that period, and the difficulties faced by black Americans. Some of the songs include lyrics and sound files. Includes a timeline, railroad map, bibliography, and teaching resources. Transcripts and bibliography of this program from The American Experience are also available. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/ Topics: Communities & Groups, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Shaping Youth, Sustaining Life: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Northwest
This 2004 audio presentation recounts the story "of men who either worked in CCC [Civilian Conservation Corps] camps in the Pacific Northwest, or who worked in camps across the nation and now call the Pacific Northwest their home." During the Great Depression, the CCC "provided over 3 million young men the opportunity to combat poverty, hunger and economic adversity" by offering conservation work in forests and parks. From Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington state. http://www.whitworth.edu/Library/Archives/CurrentProjects/CCC/ Topics: United States History Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Stock Market Crash [1929]
Concise summary of the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, including the events leading up to the crash and the effect of the crash on the economy. Also includes links to interviews with two history professors about the 1929 crash and related topics. From the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) special program "The First Measured Century." http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm Topics: Finance, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression
Small presentation about the "over 250,000 young people [who] left home [during the Great Depression] in hope and desperation and began riding freight trains or hitchhiking across America." Topics include railroads during the Depression era, the Civilian Conservation Corps, food and shelter, and art related to hobo life. Includes a bibliography. From the National Heritage Museum, an American history museum founded and supported by Scottish Rite Freemasons. https://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/Default.aspx?tabid=405 Topics: Transportation, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2007 This Land Is Your Land: Rural Music and the Depression
"This site explores the evolution of traditional rural music into the commercial genre of Country and Western in the context of the Depression." It has profiles of such early figures as the Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, John Lomax, and Woody Guthrie; a look at the role of radio in the popularity of hillbilly music; and general background information on country music. From the University of Virginia Department of American Studies. http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s/RADIO/c_w/cw-front.html Topics: Agriculture, Musical Genres, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Tobacco Bag Stringing
This illustrated report focuses on tobacco bag stringing (sewing drawstrings into small cotton tobacco bags), a late 19th and early 20th century activity of "families throughout the tobacco-growing regions of North Carolina and Virginia [who] earned much-needed income." Includes an overview of tobacco bag stringing during the Great Depression, letters, profiles of workers, and over 140 photos. From the University of North Carolina Library Digital Collections. http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/tbs/ Topics: Jobs & Work, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated May 5, 2009 Unemployment and the WPA in Seattle
Presents information about the 1935 Works Progress Administration (later known as the Works Projects Administration) and its implementation in Seattle. Features background information and images of WPA documents such as petitions, reports, letters, and materials from the Downtown Local Unemployed Council's protest against forced labor. Includes a bibliography. From the Seattle Municipal Archives. http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/WPA/ Topics: Labor, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Aug 21, 2008 Visions In the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl
This classroom guide will help students understand "Dust Bowl history through the eyes of a child. Using Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning Out of the Dust as an introduction...students have the opportunity to identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s. In addition, students examine primary source materials of the period to correlate the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts as found in the [Library of Congress] American Memory collections." http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/dust/intro.html Topics: Agriculture, History, United States History, Weather Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41
A "collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera. ... [Includes] dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives" of Dust Bowl refugees. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/ Topics: Agriculture, California: Environment & Energy, Emigration & Immigration, Internet, Labor, Music, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 |
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