American History: The Great Depression: Links

"Okies" On the Road to California 1941

Political Cartoon Critical of FDR (1930s)

• About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Curriculum
  This curriculum, from the J. P. Getty Museum, focuses on Dorothea Lange and her photography, helps students to visualize history and explore their own creativity through art and writing activities.

• Dust Bowl Images
  Photographs of Dust storms and their effects in the central United States, refered to at the time as the Dust Bowl

• Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
  From the Library of Congress a timeline on the Dust Bowl of the 1930s

• Dust Bowl Migration: Questions to Consider
  From the University of California is informtion on migration during the Dust Bowl

• Dorothea Lange. (American, 1895-1965)
  From the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, a sample of the work of American photographer Dorothea Lange

• A New Deal for the Arts
  From the National Archives of the United States (NARA) is an exhibit on art created as part of the New Deal during the Great Depression.

• Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
  From the Library of Congress, Selections from the Federal Theatre Project

• WPA Posters
  The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

The Crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurt NJ 1937

The Lloyd Sealy Library has a subject guide on World War One and World War Two. Click HERE to take a look!

The Lloyd Sealy Library has a subject guide on the Holocaust. Click HERE to take a look!

Mount Rushmore (Dedicated in 1933)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library collects manuscripts, photographs and oral histories documenting President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, as well as those of various individuals and organizations associated with the Roosevelts.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
The Hoover Library collects manuscripts, photographs and oral histories documenting President Herbert Hoover.

Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest in Oregon.
(Note social security number tattooed on his arm.)
Photo by Dorothy Lange

The End of Prohibition in Cleveland Ohio 1933