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American Portraits: Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Photograph.
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Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, 1933.
Photograph. Oakland Museum of California.
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Camp, Imperial Valley, 1935.
Photograph. Oakland Museum of California.
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936. Photograph.
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936. Photograph.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Edward Hopper, Sunday Morning, 1930.
Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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The Great Depression
Timeline: The Great Depression
Confronting a Crisis
The New Deal, Part 1: Relief
The New Deal, Part 2: Security
Selling the New Deal: FSA Photographs
Federal Art Projects
The Limits of New Deal Freedom
Edward Hopper, Gas Station, 1940
Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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1. Timeline: The Great Depression
1929 The Great Crash, New York Stock Exchange
1932 Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president.
1933 Nationwide “bank holiday.” The Hundred Days and the First New Deal: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Civilian Conservation Corps; National Industrial Recovery Act; Tennessee Valley Authority; 21st Amendment: Prohibition repealed.
1934-40 Height of the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains.
1935 Supreme Court rules National Recovery Administration unconstitutional.
Social Security establishes old-age, other social insurance programs.
Wagner Act affirms collective bargaining rights, sets up National Labor Relations Board.
1936 Roosevelt re-elected president; New Deal coalition leads to Democratic landslide.
1936-37 United Auto Workers sit-down strike.
US Steel recognizes the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1938 Fair Employment Standards Act (minimum wage, child labor laws)
1939 John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath published.
Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939.
Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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2. Confronting a Crisis
Crowd gathering outside the New York Stock Exchange, 1929.
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Seattle’s Hooverville, 1931.
Photograph. Seattle Times Archive.
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Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933
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Dorothea Lange, Man Beside Wheelbarrow, 1934.
Photograph. Oakland Museum of California.
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Archibald MacLeish, Land of the Free, 1938.
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Richard Correll, “Which Is the Better Defense?,” The Voice of Action, January 3, 1936.
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Huey Long, 1934. Father Coughlin, 1930s.
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Dr. Francis Townsend shares his plan, 1930s.
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3. The New Deal, Part 1: Relief
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933.
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Movie theater during “Bank Holiday,” 1933.
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Roosevelt prepares for radio address, 1933.
Civilian Conservation Corps workers.
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NRA Blue Eagle symbol.
AAA Posters.
4. The New Deal, Part 2: Security
FERA/WPA head Harry Hopkins speaks to reporters, November 1935.
Social Security Act, 1935
Wagner Act, 1935 (National Labor Relations Board)
CIO Poster, 1935
Philip Evergood, American Tragedy, 1936.
Oil on canvas.
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The unlikely New Deal coalition of the 1930s.
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5. Selling the New Deal: FSA Photographs
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936.
Photograph. Library of Congress.
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Walker Evans, Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936.
Photograph. Metropolitan
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Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and Sons, Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936.
Photograph. Library of Congress
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, A Mule and a Plow, 1935.
Poster. Library of Congress.
Ben Shahn, Linworth Methodist Episcopal Church, Central Ohio, 1938.
Photograph. Library of Congress.
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Russell Lee, Kitchen, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1939.
Photograph. Library of Congress.
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Arthur Rothstein, Steer Skull, Badlands South Dakota, 1936.
Photograph. Library of Congress.
Gordon Parks, American Gothic (Ella Watson), 1942.
Photograph. Gordon Parks Foundation.
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago.
Gordon Parks, American Gothic (Ella Watson), 1942.
Photograph. Gordon Parks Foundation.
Gordon Parks, American Gothic (Ella Watson), 1942.
Photograph. Gordon Parks Foundation.
6. Federal Arts Programs
New Deal relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins on the cover of Time. February 19, 1934.
Federal Art, Music, and Theater Project logos.
Federal Writers’ Project:
American Guide Series, 1936-1941
Federal Writers’ Project:
Slave Narratives and Oral Histories 1936-1939
Tempie Durham
George Rickey, Susquehanna Trail, 1939.
Mural, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Grant Wood, Breaking the Prairie Sod (center panel), c. 1935-7.
Parks Library, University of Iowa in Iowa City.
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Ernest Springweiler, William Penn, 1938.
Aluminum panel, Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Bernard Zakheim, Library, (detail) 1934. Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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Picket Line, Longshoremen’s Strike, San Francisco, 1934.
Photograph.
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Bloody Thursday violence, July 5, 1934.
Photograph. San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
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Victor Arnautoff, City Life (left section), 1934.
Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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Victor Arnautoff, City Life (left section), 1934.
Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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John Langley Howard, California Industrial Scenes (left panel), 1934.
Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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John Langley Howard, California Industrial Scenes (left panel) (detail), 1934. Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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Bernard Zakheim, Library, 1934.
Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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Bernard Zakheim, Library, (detail) 1934.
Fresco, Coit Tower, San Francisco
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7. The Limits of New Deal Freedom
Margaret Bourke-White, Kentucky flood victims in line for Red Cross relief, 1937.
Photograph.
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Rural electrification project, Tennessee Valley Authority.
Dorothea Lange, Rex Theatre, Mississippi, 1939.
Photograph. Library of Congress.
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Isaac Soyer, Employment Agency, 1937.
Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art.
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