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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s (1997) Hicks, John D. Republican ascendancy, 1921–1933 (1960). online; Himmelberg, Robert F. ed The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001), short overview; Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Federal Relief Policy (1943) online; Jensen, Richard J.
The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933. In total, at least 69 offices were created during Roosevelt's terms of office as part of the New Deal.
Smithsonian digital volunteers play an important role in making historical data more accessible for the institute—volunteers have contributed over 700,000 pages of transcribed material since ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Moving Day is a 1936 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists.The cartoon, set during the contemporary Great Depression, follows the antics of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as they frantically pack their belongings after being dispossessed from their home.
The New Deal was a constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift America out of the Great Depression, and it touched every state, county, and city, as well as thousands of small towns and reached deep into rural areas with its conservation works.
In 2021, as part of a new initiative by the Fleischer estate (in co-operation with Paramount Pictures) to formally restore the Fleischers' entire filmography, a remastered print of Somewhere in Dreamland (sourced from the original negatives) premiered on the MeTV network on December 13 during MeTV's Super Colossal Cartoon Christmas, later re-airing on their weekday morning cartoon series Toon ...