Great Depression

Background and Context  --  HOLLIS Subject Terms  --  Periodical Articles  --  Personal Writings/Oral Histories  --   Document Collections  --  Images

Background and Context  

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

HOLLIS Subject Terms

  • Depressions -- 1929 -- California
  • Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • United States -- History -- 1933-1945

Periodical Articles 

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.

Document Collections

New Deal Agency Documents

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

Social Security History

Other Document collections

Images

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

New Deal Art Registry

New Deal/WPA Art Project

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)

Digital Collections: WPA Maps

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.