The #CivilianConservationCorps was formed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 and ran until 1942. Young men were hired to build infrastructure on rural public lands, such as in #NationalParks, and had to send most of the money earned home to families suffering in the #GreatDepression.
#OTD in 1934
‘Easter’
Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Cover of *The Saturday Evening Post*, Mar. 31, 1934
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JCLeyendecker #TheNewDeal #NRA #NationalRecoveryAdministration #mensfashion #womensfashion #GreatDepression
Every POS on this planet is trying to squeeze Pennie’s out of every transaction. To paraphrase Old Joe Campbell (you know the guy who inspired #StarWars ) “The #GreatDepression was a time when people came together and helped each other out. It was a time of connection.”
Elsie Eaves #engineer #journalist #STEM #science #WomensHistoryMonth #GreatDepression
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#OTD in 1940
Chicago Public Library Week March 30-April 5 -- The Public Library - an American Institution
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #publiclibraries
‘Completed [flat-roofed cinder-block] houses. #Greenbelt, #Maryland’ March 1937
Photographer Edwin Locke
#ResettlementAdministration #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression #urbanplanning #urbandevelopment #townplanning #EdwinLocke #blackandwhitephotography #housing #housedesign
‘Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute.’ Dorothea Lange. March 1936. Photo: The Library of Congress https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/
#FlorenceThompson #Nipomo #California March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
Thompson later contested much of Lange’s account
Original #DorotheaLange caption 👉ALT
#FlorenceThompson with two of her children at the temporary camp in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography
#FlorenceThompson nursing one of her children at the temporary camp in in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography
Mother of seven, #FlorenceThompson, seated, with three of her daughters and holding her baby.
#blackandwhitephotography #DorotheaLange #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography
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
"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
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&q=migrant
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
image from http://www.archelaus-cards.com/archives/20090315.php
In #MARCH 1933
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#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/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreifv2j4stlheu4ud54efvwknqmq6g6phyft5jhcn6zbrbh75mnnxmu)
‘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)
"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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7W...
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...
#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
