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Dust Bowl Migration
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/
Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/migrant/intro.html
The Great Depression and the 1990s
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/depress/overview.html
Immigration/Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/migrate/intro.html
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs offered a way to ease
the circumstances in which people found themselves due to the Great
Depression. Investigate the circumstances and lives of those who
endured this time of distress using their oral histories recorded
by the Federal Writer's Project.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/dime/intro.html
Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western
History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate
many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs
were taken between 1860 and 1920.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
Depression Era to World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945
The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information
Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever
produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the
images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early
years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact
of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the
mobilization effort for World War II.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Life Histories, Federal Writers' Project ~ Manuscripts ~ 1936-1940
These life histories were written by staff of the Folklore Project
of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later
Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library
of Congress Manuscript Division collection includes 2,900 documents
representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Posters, WPA ~ 1936-1943
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. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist,
the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
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