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On the Road in the 1930s

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Depression Resources

Websites on the Depression

MIT Opencourseware: Resources on the Depression
1930s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology and Inventions

America in the 1930s

Documenting the 1930s: Text & Photo books

American History - 1930-1939

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940

Anthology of Thirties Prose

Brother Can You Spare a Dime- The Effects of the New Deal & the Great Depression (Library of Congress)

Digital History

Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . Power of Prose . WPA | PBS

Great Depression Slang

National "New Deal" Preservation Association

New Deal Network

New Deal/WPA Art Project

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

U.S. History - Great Depression

New York Times Topics: The Great Depression

The Great Depression: What Happened and How It Compares to Today

 

Online Articles on the Depression and Travel in the Thirties

The Migrant Experience

Andrew S. Gross - The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification - Arizona Quartery

Great Depression - A Short History of the Great Depression (about.com)

The Imact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility

The Thirties by Warren Susman

Unmasking Writers Of the W.P.A. - The New York Times

W.P.A. Projects Left Their Stamp on the Region

 

Image resources

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

Digital History

New Deal Network Photo Gallery

Photographs of the Great Depression

Posters from the WPA: Collection Highlights 3. Travel and Tourism

 

Video & film online, from the Internet Archive

Chevrolet Leader News

City, The (Part I)

Conquering Roads

Internet Archive: Free Download: From Dawn to Sunset (Part I)

Our Daily Bread

Reefer Madness

See America First

Street of Memory

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The River (Part I)

The Trip

U.S. Thrilled As President Outlines Recovery Progress, 1933:10:23

 

Texts online, from the Internet Archive

America builds - The record of PWA

Brooks, Van Wyck, Three Essays on America

Brown, Rollo Walter, I Travel By Train

Dulles, Foster Rhea, America Learns To Play A History Of Popular Recreation 1607-1940

Highway transportation re-makes America

MacDonell, A. G., A Visit to America

Natarajan. K, Our Trip To America

New York State Economic Council, Is Your Town Red?

Roads To Travel - A Collection of Travel Selections

Full text of "The "Argonauts""

 

WPA Guides online

California - a guide to the Golden state

Dutchess county

Mississippi; a guide to the Magnolia State

Montana, a state guide book

New Jersey, a guide to its present and past;

The ocean highway- New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida

The Oregon trail, US 30; the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean;

U.S. one, Maine to Florida

Vermont; a guide to the Green Mountain state

 

Music in the Thirties

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930s

American Folklife Center: Alan Lomax Collection

Some Music from the 1930s

WPA, the band

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