During the early 1900’s, child labor was a major problem across the United States. Instead of attending school, many underage children worked to supplement family income. Even though child labor had been condemned in America since the early 1800’s, it wasn’t until 1892 that the Democratic Party adopted a plank in their platform recommending a […]
The New York City ghetto fish market was bustling with activity on this day as the film taken by Thomas Edison company in 1903 reveals. The streets are crowded The view, photographed from an elevated camera position, looks down on a very crowded New York City street market. Rows of pushcarts and street vendors’ vehicles […]
These photographs below of young workers from the 1915s include names of children from New York, Mississippi and Maine who worked in the cannery industry. Canning was once an industry that hired young workers in America as seen by the following photographs. Instead of attending school, children were often forced to work by their parents […]
Written at the request of a grandson who ask me, “What has happened of great significance in your lifetime?” The Great Depression This was the period of time after World War I when the economy of the United States became even worse than today. Banks failed, unemployment was at the lowest in history, and food […]
This is a picture of the White House after it was burned by the British in the War of 1812. On June 12, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain. There had been a long period of simmering disputes between the nations, including Northwest Territory land disputes, the British impressment of […]
No finer example of colonial homes of Maryland can be found in the State than that of Wilbur W. Hubbard, banker, fertilizer manufacturer, and financier. Here Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard entertained in true Eastern Shore style, and their many friends, including artists and architects of distinction, claimed this beautiful residence to be a fine example […]
While economic woes made life difficult in Georgia during the 1930’s, some still had a sense of humor and strong religious convictions as revealed by the road signs below. Photographed by Dorothea Lange 1937 Photographed by Marion Post Walcott 1939 Try a trial Membership by clicking the link below. Join Amazon Prime […]
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. She visited Georgia in 1937 and below are some of her remarkable photographs. Farmer who has just moved into impoverished Greene County, Georgia from the […]
Part I Japanese Internment The Evacuation The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 led military and political leaders to suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast of the United States. Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor […]
On March 6, 1930 International Unemployment Day was held which was a coordinated international campaign of marches and demonstrations, marked by hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world taking to the streets to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression. The Unemployment Day marches, were organized by the Communist International […]
