American
Life Histories
Manuscripts from
the Federal Writer's
Project 1936-1940Learn
about life during the Great Depression
through writings of people who chronicled
their
everyday lives for
the U.S. Works Progress (later Work
Projects) Administration (WPA) from
1936-1940. The
Library of Congress holds
the collection of documents from
over 300 writers. Read text versions
or
original documents.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Voices
from the Dust Bowl
The Charles
L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection
1940-1941Voices
from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L.
Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection is
an online presentation documenting
the everyday lives of residents of
migrant work camps in central
California in 1940 and 1941. This
collection
consists of audio
recordings and photographs. From
the American Folklife Center at the
Library
of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Dear
Mrs. Roosevelt
Read authentic
letters written to First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
by children during the Great
Depression. The New Deal Network, the producer
of this site,
is
sponsored by
the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute and the Institute for
Learning Technologies
at Teachers
College/Columbia
University. NDN is funded in
part through a grant from the National
Endowment for
the
Humanities.
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
Picturing
the Century
One Hundred Years
of Photography from the
National ArchivesView
photos from the National Archives.
Photos
are categorized by subjects.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/home.html
A
Humanities Exhibit Featuring
Documentary Photographs from
the Farm Security
Administration file and Companion
Photographs taken in the late
1970s by Bill Ganzel
View photos
of people during the Dust
Bowl in the 1930s and "meet" them
again in photos taken during the 1970s. Bill
Ganzel tracked down survivors
of the Dust Bowl who were
photographed by photographers
of the Farm Security Administration.
Organized by the Texas Humanities
Resource
Center.
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/
Dorothea
Lange
The Migrant Mother
SequenceView the sequence
of photos taken
by Dorothea Lange
as
she captured the famous
photo, Migrant Mother in
1936. These photographs
are part of America
in the 1930s project
by the American Studies
Program at the University
of Virginia.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/fsa/lang.html
Special
Collections in the Library
of Congress, Farm Security
Administration/Office
of War Information Collection
Learn
more about the collection
of photos from the Farm
Security Administration/Office
of War
Information Collection.
View
authentic photos. Library
of
Congress produced this
site.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/052_fsa.html
America
from the Great Depression
to World War II:
Black
and White
Photographs
from
the FSA-OWI 1935-1945
More
information and photos
from the Farm Security Administration/Office
of
War Information
Collection. Search
photos by counties
in Iowa and other
states and by subject. Library
of Congress
maintains
this
collection and
provides images
on this
Web site.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
Library
of Congress Photo
Archives Index
Search
the Library
of Congress photo
archives by subject.
View Farm Security
Administration photos
from Iowa and
other states.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsaSubjects05.html
Women
in History:
Living
Vignettes of Notable
Women from U.S. History
Read
about Margaret
Bourke-White,
photographer during
the Great Depression
and World War
II, and a woman
of many "firsts."
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bour-mar.htm
University
Museum of Art:
Celebrating
the Farm:
The Art of
Living on the Land
The
University Museum
of Art
will be hosting Celebrating
the Farm: The Art
of Living on the Land from
March 7-May 4, 2003.
March 30 begins with Celebrating
the Farm, An Overview,
followed by April
13 with Remembering
the Family Farm: 150
Years of American Prints,
and finishes May 4
with Rural Visions:
Paintings by Marvin
Cone.
http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/mar-apr%202003/celebrate.html
Links
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Surviving the Dust Bowl
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl
"Surviving the Dust Bowl" is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease--even death--for nearly a decade. PBS' American Experience has brought stories of the people and events that shaped this country into nearly eight million homes each week. The series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
I Hear America Singing
www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/evans.html
Read about Walker Evans, photographer in the Farm Securities Administration.
Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland
www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses
Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland is a film about the rural past and was inspired by photographer and essayist William Gabler's beautiful book of classic farmhouses, Death of the Dream. The one-hour documentary, featuring stunning photography, weaves a tapestry combining images of vanishing farmhouses with stories of historians, farm experts, and people who lived "the dream" of life on the farm. Part celebration and part bittersweet elegy, Death of the Dream provides a window towards the past, while looking towards the future.
The Farmer's Wife
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/farmerswife
Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland takes a look deep inside the passionate, yet troubled marriage of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young farm couple in rural Nebraska facing the loss of everything they hold dear. Darrel and Juanita tell their own story, in their own words, without the intrusion of a narrator. It unfolds before our eyes, as it is happening.
People's Century
www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury
As the twentieth century rushed toward its conclusion, People's Century looks back at the story of our times. The twenty-six part PBS series and Web site offers new insight into the turbulent events of those hundred years through the revealing personal testimony of the people who were there.
Brother, Can You Spare A Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones
www.pbs.org/jessejones
Jesse H. Jones shaped a major American city, laid the groundwork for the modern Red Cross, was one of the most powerful figures in world finance in the 1930s, and prepared America for war. Without him American capitalism might have been lost in the depths of the Great Depression.
The Afternoon Magazine on WILL/AM-580
will.uiuc.edu/am/aftmag/archives/03/030106.htm
Listen to an interview with Leslie A. Loveless, author of A Bountiful Harvest The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965. THE AFTERNOON MAGAZINE is a radio program on WILL/AM-580 with Celeste Quinn, host/producer, produced by Harriet Williamson (requires RealPlayer). Click on the link entitled "A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST: THE MIDWESTERN FARM PHOTOGRAPHS OF PETE WETTACH, 1925-1965" to hear the full interview.
Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
www.iptv.org/iowastories/detail.cfm/pictureperfect
Photographs show the faces, fields and porches of small-town America before World War II and stand as a historical record of both a bygone time and a rural Iowa that's fading away. Only Iowa Public Television brings you this Iowa story.
