Learn
more about Pete Wettach
Photographs
of Iowa Farm life
A.M.
WettachView additional photos taken by Pete Wettach
between the
1920s and 1960s. This Web site is produced
by
the University of Iowa, where some of
Wettach's original
photos were discovered.
The discovery led to Wettach family members
living in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Family members shared
the
entire collection of photos with the State
Historical Society
of Iowa.
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/wettach/info.html
Listen
to the author of A
Bountiful Harvest
The
Afternoon Magazine on WILL/AM-580
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.
http://will.uiuc.edu/am/aftmag/archives/030106.htm
Prairie
Lights Bookstore on WSUI AM 910 Public
Radio
Listen to Leslie Loveless as she
reads from A Bountiful
Harvest
The Midwestern Farm Photographs of
Pete Wettach 1925-1965. Leslie Loveless
also discusses her book in this interview
on Live From Prairie
Lights. This radio program, hosted
by Julie Englander, is typically broadcast
live from Prairie Lights Bookstore broadcast
on WSUI AM 910
Public Radio.
http://wsui.uiowa.edu/prairie_lights.htm
Review
related links to agriculture, the
Great Depression and photography
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
Review
related PBS Links
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Surviving the Dust Bowl
"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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl
Brother,
Can You
Spare A
Billion?
The Story
of Jesse
H. Jones
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.
http://www.pbs.org/jessejones
People's
Century
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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury
The
Farmer's
Wife
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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/farmerswife
Death
of the
Dream:
Farmhouses
in the
Heartland
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.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses
I
Hear America
Singing
Read about
Walker Evans,
photographer in
the Farm
Securities Administration.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/evans.html
Connect
to related IPTV
programming
Living
in Iowa
Iowa is enriched
by our history. Living
in Iowa examines
the history of our state
and explores the richness
of the past. Visit interesting
places,
meet intriguing people,
and see incredible
sights throughout Iowa. Living
in Iowa brings
you the most beautiful,
interesting and unusual
Iowans and examines
the impact they have
on their neighborhood,
their community and our
state.
http://www.iptv.org/lii
Market
to Market
From
global trade
conflicts to
environmental controversies
and from
changing technologies
to emerging
enterprises, Market
to Market continues
to explain the issues
and illuminate the alternatives
that challenge
rural America. Market
to Market is
the "weekly
journal of
rural America."
http://www.iptv.org/mtom
Research
the IPTV resources
for Iowa teachers
Explore
More
Investigate the issues.
Interview the experts.
Explore more. Engaging
topics and an issue-driven
approach extend learning
beyond the classroom.
Motivate your students
with real issues for
the real world with
real people solving
real problems. IPTV's Explore
More project
is a balanced multimedia
resources to help
students unravel
timely issues and make
informed decisions.
http://www.iptv.org/exploremore
School
to Careers
School
to Careers
is a
career development
project for
7-12th grade
students, educators
and parents.
Through video,
Web and
interactive activities
students are
introduced to
career professionals,
projects and
ideas that
help them
identify their
interests and
plan for
their futures.
http://www.careers.iptv.org
The
K-12 Classroom
Resource Catalog
Every
year, Iowa Public
Television
purchases
educational record
rights
for over 100 series
included in The
Classroom Resource Catalog.
Teachers may record
programs and use
them for educational
purposes. Iowa
Heritage and Land Between Two Rivers are
two of several series
available
to Iowa
teachers.
http://www.iptv.org/k12catalog
K-12 Connections
IPTV's
K-12 Connections offers
distance learning events
to improve the distance
learning experiences
for elementary and middle
school
students through the
interactive classrooms
of the Iowa Communications
Network
(ICN). K-12 Connections offers
complete online
registration and support
at no
charge to Iowa
districts.
http://www.k12connections.iptv.org
Earth
Trails: Mississippi
River
Designed for grades
6-8, Earth Trails: Mississippi
River
is an interactive multimedia
program
that requires
students to research,
plan, and compose multimedia
presentations based on
content
and issues
related to the Mississippi
River. Using this innovative
resource, students
explore the Mississippi
River region from the
headwaters
in Minnesota
to the Louisiana delta.
http://www.iptv.org/mississippi
This
Old
Statehouse
IPTV presents This Old Statehouse,
a
half-hour documentary
on
the work
and workers
that are
restoring Iowa's
most
important architectural
icon, the
state Capitol.
Through the
use of
on-the-scene video
essays,
in-depth interviews,
and photos,
both historical
and contemporary, This
Old Statehouse documents
both the history
of the Capitol and
the
story of its restoration.
http://www.iptv.org/statehouse
ZOOM
Iowa
Kids
don't just watch
ZOOM,
they do ZOOM. ZOOM
Iowa is motivating
kids all over the
state to ZOOM
Into Action by volunteering
in their
communities. IPTV wants
to encourage kids
to
make a difference
in Iowa. We want
kids to participate
in service learning
activities in their
homes, at school,
in their communities,
share their experiences,
and send their
ideas to IPTV and
the ZOOM Iowa Web
site.
http://www.iptv.org/zoom
Read
the educational standards and benchmarks for national
and Iowa history
National
Standards
for
History
Correlate
the
National
Standards
for
History
to
the
teaching
of
Iowa
history
and
the
Great
Depression.
The
History
Standards
were
developed
under
the
guidance
of
the
National
Council
for
History
Standards.
Funding
was
provided
from
the
National
Endowment
for
the
Humanities
and
the
U.S.
Department
of
Education.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards
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