Great Depression
Background and Context -- HOLLIS Subject Terms -- Periodical Articles -- Personal Writings/Oral Histories -- Document Collections -- Images
Historical Dictionary of the New Deal: From Inauguration to Preparation for War, ed. by James S. Olson.
Location : Lamont REFERENCE E806 .H58 1985
Location : Widener WID-LC E806 .H58 1985 (Non-circulating)
Internet Archive Full Text
- Depressions -- 1929 -- California
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945
For Newspapers, see the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe): 20th Century
Personal Writings/Oral Histories
The Great Depression Interviews offers transcripts of 148 interviews plus video. More Information
CCC Legacy includes personal narratives
The Making of the New Deal: the insiders speak, ed. by Katie Louchheim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983, 368 p.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text -- Another copy
--Reminiscences of lawyers, economists, and public administrators who worked in Washington during the thirties offer a detailed look at the Roosevelt Administration.
HathiTrust Digital Library offers many New Deal era government documents. You can search in the HathiTrust Catalog by agency name as Author
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
The New Deal Era: Documents Available from the Boston Public Library.
Guide to New Deal agency publications digitized by the BPL.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936–1940
The New Deal Era: Documents Available from the Boston Public Library
Other Document collections
Photogrammar offers 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the US Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
New Deal Art During the Great Depression
Flickr: The New Deal Post Office Murals Pool
post office murals – Pinterest
New Deal Art & WPA era Murals – Pinterest
Listing of Texas Post Office Murals by Town
Living New Deal Project describes public works projects in California
Photos of the New Deal and the Great Depression
America From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 (Library of Congress)
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (Library of Congress)
ARTstor is a database of digital images serving art history and the humanities.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
National Archives and Records Administration Photos and Pictures Online
National Archives and Records Administration Photographs and Graphic Works (Research Guide) Their online catalog, ARC, can be searched by subject and format.
NYPL Digital Gallery offers over 700,000 images from the New York Public Library.