Construction on the Greenhills project, Ohio. Photograph by Brice Martin. Dec. 1936.

Greenhills, Ohio October 1939 by photographer John Vachon

Community center at Greenhills, Ohio by John Vachon October 1939.

Shops, Greenhills, Ohio. October 1939 by John Vachon.

Greenhills, Ohio. A community near #Cincinnati planned by the Suburban Division of the U.S. #ResettlementAdministration. 1936.
#TheNewDeal #GreatDepression

The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Worst Hard Time

"America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since"

Sale: $18.99 to $1.99

by Timothy Egan
Rating: 4.5/5 (7,144 Reviews)

#DustBowl #History #GreatDepression #Environmental #Nonfiction #Survival #USA #BookSky

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In #MARCH 1937
‘18-year-old mother from Oklahoma now a California migrant’ Farm Security Administration. March 1937. The #ResettlementAdministration is now the #FarmSecurityAdministration. March 1937.
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography

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In #MARCH 1933
👇🧵
#TheNewDeal in #cartoons
'I wonder how long before they're going to make it easy for us farmers.'
Cartoon by Harold Denison from *Life*, March 1933.
#farming #farmers #GreatDepression #AgriculturalAdjustmentAct

‘A lush, charming scene filled with tropical greenery & beautiful, gentle animals welcomes the viewer of Jungle. This is no scientific study of a foreign land. The blackbuck at the far left is the only identifiable animal… This is a FANTASY JUNGLE, devoid of biting insects & threatening predators. The painting is as delightfully impossible as popular Depression-era jungle movies like the 1932 Tarzan, The Ape Man, featuring Indian elephants alongside African chimpanzees. The frustrated ape at the center of the painting is reminiscent of the chimps in the Tarzan movies. Like the Hollywood products of its day, this painting offers viewers a colorful temporary refuge from the grim realities of Depression-era America. The parallels between canvas & film are no accident. A few years earlier [he] had painted fantastic visions on the walls of Hollywood movie palaces like the Paramount Theatre & Grauman’s Theatre. ...' https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/3314798286/in/pool-1934/

3 #MARCH #WorldWildlifeDay
‘Jungle’ Paul Kirtland Mays (1887-1961). Oil on canvas. #PublicWorksOfArtProject (#PWAP). 1934.
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Smithsonian AAM (from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service).
#wildlife #PaulKirtlandMays #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression

Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1) Amazon.com: Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1) eBook : Heenan, Karen: Kindle Store

Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (Ava and Claire Book 1)

"No one knows you like a sister"

Sale: $4.99 to FREE

by Karen Heenan
Rating: 4.7/5 (2,034 Reviews)

#HistoricalFiction #Sisters #GreatDepression #Family #WomensFiction #BookSky

long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers. March 1937.’
#GreatDepression #unemployement #migrantworkers #relief #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography #DorotheaLange

That #consumer #debt thread shows we are speed running into a #GreatDepression 2.0 this year.
None of this is sustainable
$1.66 trillion of AUTO loan debt. For objects that depreciate 50% off the lot and which I despise and would very much enjoy living without if I could is insane

#OTD in 1936
'Close-up of #WPA workers laying blocks on North Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts’
(cleaning & repairs in the wake of historic floods in the region that year)
Photographer Unknown
Mar. 23, 1936
#TheNewDeal #GreatDepression #workrelief #blackandwhitephotography

These piers were renumbered in 1944 as Piers 63 and 63 and later lost their pier sheds.’ 21 March 1935.
#GreatDepression #FERA #Seattle #Washington #TheNewDeal #workrelief #blackandwhitephotography

And once again, #ImpeachTrump! #IranWar #Iran

FFS! What's it going to fucking take?!

Trump and #Netanyahu need to be taken to the #ICC in #theHague

Another #GreatDepression is coming because of that fucker trump

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Front page of the DAILY NEWS, 1935, with the following headline: 4,000 RIOT IN HARLEM; ONE KILLED. Shows photos cop cops beating and arresting African-Americans

Today in #LaborHistory 3/19/1935: #Harlem #Uprising, during #GreatDepression, after rumors of black Puerto Rican teen beaten by employees at SH Kress & killed by #police. Protests, vandalism & looting. Police arrested 125 people & killed 3.

‘Two mountain lions gaze serenely over their home range from atop a ridge of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Artist Ila McAfee Turner brought out the gentle beauty and fleeting companionship of these big predators during the days a newly mated pair spends together. During the rest of the year the mature cats live in separate territories. Turner lived in Taos, New Mexico, but was well acquainted with this dramatic, steep-sided Colorado canyon and its animal inhabitants. She had grown up riding horseback around her family’s ranch outside the mining town of Gunnison, Colorado. In a song titled “Did You Ever Hear of Gunnison?” the artist described her childhood home as she showed these mountain lions, “way up there, in thin clean air, far away from anywhere, up on the beautiful western slope, high in the rugged Rocky Mountains.” https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/3266718781/in/pool-1934/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/with/3266718781/

3 #MARCH #WorldWildlifeDay
‘Mountain Lions’ Ila McAfee Turner (1897-1995)
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Oil on canvas. #PublicWorksOfArtProject (#PWAP). Smithsonian AAM (from U.S. Dept. of Labor) 1934
#wildlife #WinthropDuthieTurney #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression

So here's the breakdown on what the skyrocketing #oilprices will mean to American consumers

Worst-case, if as Citibank predicts, oil hits $200/bbl, we are going to see $10/gal gas prices

About 400% inflation, which will ripple thru the global economy
#greatdepression

3 #MARCH #WorldWildlifeDay
‘Selection from Birds and Animals of the United States’
Winthrop Duthie Turney (1884-1965). Oil on canvas.
#PublicWorksOfArtProject (#PWAP). Smithsonian American Art Museum. 1934.
#wildlife #WinthropDuthieTurney #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression

In the latest of our 4-part mini-series, @1autumnleaf.bsky.social and I spotlight #AnnaSchwartz - the pioneering economist who argued that policymakers were responsible for boom and bust, including the #GreatDepression. Listen @breakingmath.bsky.social or online: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjaV...

‘Everything is going up’: Americans struggle with affordability despite Trump’s claims US workers are finding it difficult to afford basic necessities as the president claims ‘the economy is roaring back’

#Radicalized Right-wing #Republicans have completely and totally destroyed the USA in just over one year.
#GreatDepression #DustBowl

President explained...’ Within two weeks people returned more than half of the cash they had been hoarding, and the first stock-trading day after the bank holiday marked the largest-ever one-day percentage price increase.
#GreatDepression #FiresideChats #BankingCrisisOf1933

Of Mice and Men - 5/5 ⭐
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#BookReview #OfMiceAndMen #JohnSteinbeck #ClassicLiterature #AmericanLiterature #Substack #IndieWriter #BookRecommendations #LiteraryFiction #Friendship #GreatDepression #Tragedy #MustRead

Not different from these days finding work in a terrible job market.

The US did not learn their lessons from the Great Depression.

#recession
#badjobmarket
#greatdepression
#corporategreed
#peasantclass
#workingclass

In #MARCH 1937
‘Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California.’
#RA/#FSA photo. The #ResettlementAdministration is now the #FarmSecurityAdministration. March 1937.
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

-Black Sabbath

#Fuckatrump #Fuckrepublicans #FuckWar #GreatDepression

#OTD in 1936
‘Negro Students of Utica Industrial Institute in Hinds County, Mississippi raising prize hogs. National Youth Administration. March 9, 1936.’
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #NationalYouthAdmininstration #NYA

The #FordHungerMarch was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, when #police opened fire on an unarmed crowd of the #unemployed during the #GreatDepression, killing five & wounding 60 others. Those killed were members of the #YoungCommunistLeague; fear of the workers created the #NewDeal.

‘The New Deal Ice Palace; #LakeBemidji, #Minnesota’
Civil Works Administration. March 1934.
The larger FERA (1933), then the WPA (1935), would continue to provide (less idealistic) work relief.
#CWA #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression #workrelief #NRA #NationalRecoveryAdministration

In #MARCH 1934
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‘Supporters of the #CivilWorksAdministration protesting against the forthcoming termination of the organization, outside City Hall New York City, March 1934. Speakers predicted violence if Emergency Relief provided by the #CWA was withdrawn.’
#GreatDepression

The Life and Times of a Korean Veteran Renaissance Man Once he gets going, this artist-writer-veteran-polio-survivor-German-translator-mime-masseuse-soldier-on-the-Korean-wall-during-Vietnam is g...

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#Colorado #Denver #German #GreatDepression #KoreanWar #Minnesota #poetry #Romanticism #VietnamWar #Bohemian #booksky

Unemployed workers marching for jobs in the 1930s. They’re carrying a banner that reads: “Work or Riot, One or the Other.”

Today in #LaborHistory 3/6/1930: 100,000 demonstrated for jobs in #NewYorkCity & battled #police in #Cleveland, 10,000 people battled police. Led to creation of #HUAC to fight #communism.
#workingclass #unemployment #policebrutality #greatdepression #riot

Roosevelt’s inauguration stands as one of the most significant presidential inaugurations in the history of the United States.

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#FDR #USHistory #GreatDepression #PresidentialHistory #Inauguration #FranklinDRoosevelt

How the 1929 Crash Rewired Global Politics Forever When the New York Stock Exchange imploded across four catastrophic trading sessions in October 1929, the shockwave refused to stop at the water's edge. This investigation examines, country by country, how the abrupt withdrawal of American private capital and the simultaneous contraction of international credit lines translated directly into the collapse of liberal coalitions, the empowerment of authoritarian movements, and the militarization of economic policymaking across Europe, Latin America, and the British Dominions. Drawing on the economic histories of Barry Eichengreen, Harold James, and Milton Friedman, alongside League of Nations statistical series and contemporary government documents available online, this feature traces the precise mechanisms by which a Wall Street panic became a civilizational crisis — and how the specific financial architecture of the 1920s made the political devastation of the 1930s nearly inevitable.

The 1929 crash didn't just erase portfolios — it toppled governments, fueled fascism, and rewired the world map. A deep investigation into how capital flight became political dynamite. #GreatDepression #WallStreet #History