1. Hard Times and the New Deal

2. Hooverville outside of Seattle, Washington (1933)
Industrial production fell more than 9 percent from October to December 1929 and American imports dropped 20 percent from September to December
Hooverville outside of Seattle, Washington (1933)

3. Farm Foreclosure Sale In Iowa During the Great Depression (1933)

5. View of Bonus Veterans’ Camp (1932)

6. The Bonus Army’s Encampment Set Ablaze

8. On way to U.S. Capitol for Roosevelt's Inauguration, March 4, 1933

9. FDR delivering one of his “fireside chats”

10. Photograph of a Slaughtered Pig During the Great Depression

11. Photograph of a Dust Storm in Oklahoma During the Great Depression

12. Migrants Sitting in Their Car

13. Photograph of "Okies" Driving to California During the Great Depression

14. Photograph of a Wife and Children of a Sharecropper During the Great Depression

15. Black and white farm workers listen to a speaker at a Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union meeting in Arkansas.

16. Hydroelectric generators at the Grand Coulee Dam

17. Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollees Clearing Land During the Great Depression

18. Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps at an Experimental Farm During the Great Depression

19. Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollees on the Fire Line in a Big Forest Fire in the West. (Circa 1933)

20. Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1952

21. The Spirit of the New Deal, 1933 cartoon from the Washington Star.

23. New popular movements indicated that many people wanted the government to do much more to relieve the Depression
Huey P. Long
Louisiana Senator
Share Our Wealth Plan
“Every Man a King”

24. Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange – perhaps the most famous documentary photograph of the 1930s.

25. Arts of the West by Thomas Hart Benton

28. Diego Rivera (1932)

29. Jerry Mast Painting WPA Mural
Works Projects Administration artist painting mural at Clare High School, January 27, The Works Projects Administration was part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, a revolutionary program which aimed to alleviate the massive suffering of unemployed during the Depression by creating jobs through public projects. The WPA lasted from 1935 to 1943, and during this time the administration created thousands of public works projects, as well as fine arts programs. Above, artist Jerry Mast paints one of the thousands of WPA murals that adorn public buildings throughout the country.

30. WPA Mural (Jackson, Missouri Post Office)

34. A 1935 poster promoting the new Social Security system

35. Advocates of industrial unionism saw the government’s move to the left and the Wagner Act as the most promising of times to organize the unorganized
This leaflet distributed by the United Auto Workers (UAW) captured the impact of the Wagner Act on union organizing

36. Strikers occupying GM’s Fisher Body Plant No
Strikers occupying GM’s Fisher Body Plant No. 1 keeping up with news of the strike

37. A cartoon from the Richmond Times-Dispatch commenting on FDR’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court