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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, Idaho.
http://www.ccccok.org/museum/dustbowl.html
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
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
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/
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
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/
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://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/depres24.html
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/
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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/
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/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/dust/intro.html
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/ |
