Homelessness in America has always been a problem, but in the 1930s after the Great Depression and the during the drought years of the Dust Bowl, people suffered severely. Family living in a community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Father was in the hospital with broken back received when he fell from roof on which he was applying […]
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Haunting [photographs] reveal the lives of largest migration in American history
See larger image Vinegar of the Four Thieves: Recipes & Curious Tips from the Past (Paperback) List Price: $12.77 New From: $12.77 In Stock The exodus from dried up farms due to the Dust Bowl was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time. Farmers affected by the Dust Bowl traveled […]
[old film & pictures] The Ohio River Flood of 1937 surpassed all prior floods during the previous 175 years – great historic films
The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million people were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million ($8 billion in 2012 dollars). Federal and state resources were strained to aid recovery, as the disaster occurred […]
[see vintage pics] W-all we all just a ‘set’; sometimes a few of ’em get up and move about to ‘tother side [cool pics from 1936]
Life was slow for these men during the Great Depression The Great Depression began in August of 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession. Although the country spent two months with declining GDP, it was not until the Wall Street Crash of October, 1929 that the effects of a declining […]
The Schoenfeldt family of Sheridan, Kansas worked hard on their turkey farm as these photographs reveal
The Schoenfeldt, a Russian-German family, raised turkeys on their farm in Sheridan County, Kansas in August 1939. Photojournalist Russell Lee took many photographs of the family as they went about their daily chores. Family of Mr. Schoenfeldt, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Sheridan County, Kansas Sod house of the Schoenfeldts, FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients. […]
Here is how the hobos found a good meal in the Great Depression Days
Another great story from Author, Christie Seiler Boeke! Depression Days by Christie Seiler Boeke My mother and aunts often talked about their darkest years in the 1930s and the many hardships they endured. They told of soup lines and men on street corners with stacks of carefully polished apples for sale, hobo jungles and Hoovervilles […]
Isn’t it funny, what the things are that we remember the most?
I remember by Joyce Ray Wheeler “I remember, I remember the house where I was born.” This is the first line of a poem Mrs. Iva Butram had her fourth graders memorize at Rocky Hill School in 1935. Yes, I do remember “the house where I was born.” It stood in the middle of little […]
Vivid photographs and account of tobacco sharecroppers lives in North Carolina!
The following photographs are from WPA INTERVIEWs – a Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s in North Carolina. The comments with the pictures are the actual words of the people photographed and the person taking pictures and interviewing the people. “My husband patched ’em up loose on purpose,” said Mrs. Riddle, “so if we move […]
Did you know that the Ford Mansion stands close to Mt. Vernon in historic importance. [Great pictures, film and story]
The house best known in Morristown, and to all students of history throughout the State of New Jersery and country at large, is the carefully preserved Ford Mansion. *Note: Some of the language below may be a little antiquated because its excerpts and transcriptions from a the book -Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey […]