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The legacy lived on in other Memphis events with a revival during the Great Depression. Mardi Gras was reincarnated in 1931 as the Cotton Carnival, and the new celebration became one of the biggest parties of the South, remaining a culturally significant event that Memphis celebrates to this day.
Trout, Charles H. Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (1977) online; Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression (Routledge, 2003) ISBN 0-415-94575-5 author's site; Warren, Harris Gaylord. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H.
For many years Wittingslow was Australia's (and one of the world's) largest traveling carnival operations, spanning more than 60 years in the outdoor entertainment industry. Founder Thomas George Wittingslow made his start during the dark years of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
During the Great Depression the art of photography played an important role in the Social Realist movement. The work of Dorothea Lange , Walker Evans , Margaret Bourke-White , Lewis Hine , Edward Steichen , Gordon Parks , Arthur Rothstein , Marion Post Wolcott , Doris Ulmann , Berenice Abbott , Aaron Siskind , Russell Lee , Ben Shahn (as a ...
During the Depression, a piece of cardboard or a new rubber sole may have extended the wear of a pricey pair, and clothes were certainly mended and patched long before they were ever thrown out.
During this time, most people believed that the decline was merely a bad recession, worse than the recessions that occurred in 1923 and 1927, but not as bad as the Depression of 1920–1921. Economic forecasters throughout 1930 optimistically predicted an economic rebound come 1931, and felt vindicated by a stock market rally in the spring of 1930.
Marathon dancing, 1923. Dance marathons (or marathon dances) are events in which people dance or walk to music for an extended period of time.They started as dance contests in the 1920s and developed into human endurance contests, or exploitative entertainment events during the Great Depression in the 1930s. [1]