Ms. Taylor
Great Depression Art Critique
2004-05

Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute, Dorothea Lange, Photographer, 1936, March.

Databases

Facts on File: History Database Center


Ask Ms. Powers or Ms. Taylor for the user name and password
to use these databases. Currently available until January 15, 2005.


San Francisco Public Library
1. Go to Articles and Databases.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page for:
Student Resource Center
3. Type in your SFPL library card number.
4. Search the database.
Ocenet Consulta
Spanish database: Ask Ms. Powers for the password.

Search Engine

Print Resources at
MHS
Library Media Center

Non-Fiction Use the
MHS Online Catalog
Web Links

The Great Depression: An African American Perspective

The Migrant Experience

Minorities and the Great Depression

About.com: Photographs of the Great Depression

We Have Fed You All For a Thousand Years: Farm workers

The Depression News 1930s: Labor Unions

Labor Unions during the Great Depression and the New Deal

Music, Radio and the Southern Union Movement

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Children in the Great Depression

Riding the Rails: Teenagers in the Great Depression

Social Security System: Historical Development: Elderly
Social Security Online: History: Elderly

American Cultural History 1930-39

America from the Great Depression to World War II
Photographs from the FSI-OWI 1935-1945: Library of Congress

The National Archives: A New Deal for the Arts

Representing America:The Ken Trevey Collection of American Realist Prints

Scenes of American Life

MHS Print Reference

  1. American Immigration
    304.8 DAN
  2. American in the 20th Century:
    13 Volumes 973.9 AME
  3. American Women's History
    305.4 MAT
  4. An Eyewitness History: The Great Depression 973.91 BUR
  5. An Eyewitness History: Immigration 304.8 WEP
  6. An Eyewitness History: Working in America 305.5 REE
  7. Depression America: 6 Volumes 330.973 DEP
  8. Illustrated History of Women: Depression and War: 1930-1959 305.4 FRA
  9. Reference Library of Hispanic America 323.1 HAR
  10. Reference Library of Asian America 325.25
  11. Reference Library of Black America 305.896 BLA
  12. Women in the Workplace
    331.4 SCH
  13. Work in America: 2 Volumes 331.09 WOR
  14. Britannica Encyclopedia
  15. Student Discovery Encyclopedia
  16. World Book Encyclopedia


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