CONTENTS
  

  American History PicturePack

Collection H:
The Twenties and the
Great Depression, 1920-1940
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
  

PicturePack H01: Life in the 1920s ● Map, the United States in 1920 ● Paving section of National Highway in 1919 ● A filling station at Brewster, New York, in 1921 ● Ad for a Lincoln touring car, 1923 ● A 1925 Chevrolet advertisement ● Camp life at Camp Baldy in California ● Main Street in Brawley, California, ca. 1915 ● Chicago's Tribune Tower, 1930 ● San Francisco business district in 1927 ● A steelworker on the Empire State building, 1930 ● Vehicles in the Holland Tunnel, 1927 ● Sidewalks and suburban streets of Montclair, NJ ● Car related property booms in CA and FL ● A 1925 magazine advertisement for Hollywood, FL ● Charles Lindbergh loading air mail ● The first U.S. airliner the "Tin Goose." ● A Union Pacific streamliner ● Chart of major sources of U.S. immigrants in 1921 ● Sacco and Vanzetti ● 1920 Chinese residents of San Francisco ● Mexican-American grape pickers near Guasti, CA  
 

PicturePack H02: African Americans in the 1920s ● Claude McKay (1890-1948) ● James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) ● Educator and author Alain Leroy Locke (1886-1954) ● "The Brown Madonna." ● "African Phantasy: Awakening," by Winold Reiss ● "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) ● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) ● Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) ● A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) ● A mob of whites in New Albany, Mississippi ● A Mississippi KKK initiation, 1923 ● Ku Klux Klan members in a midnight ritual in 1922 ● Klan's 1926 parade down Pennsylvania Avenue  
 

PicturePack H03: Changes for Women in the 1920s ● Maud May Wood Park (1871-1955) ● Women workers in the 1920s ● Women in 1920s worked in sex-stereotyped jobs ● Incomes of working women gave them freedom ● Hair curling, 1920’s.A cigarette ad from a 1925 magazine ● Cover, True Story magazine, 1922 ● A 1925 soap ad ● A beauty pageant ● Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) ● A "model kitchen" in 1920 ● 1925 Buick ad   
 

PicturePack H04: 1920s Sports, Leisure, Art & Literature ● "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948) ● College & professional football also were popular ● 1920's golfer Robert Tyre Bobby Jones, Jr ● One of the first commercial radio stations, 1920 ● A 1924 Freed-Eisemann radio receiver ● Amos and Andy ● The Roxy Theater, New York, 1927 ● D.W. Griffith (1875-1948), the director ● Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) ● Advent of "talking" pictures ● "Billy" Sunday (1863-1935) ● Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) ● Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) ● Al Capone (1899-1947) ● John Dillinger (1902-1934) ● Airplane & automobile caught transporting liquor ● Federal agents seize a still ● Director "Duckboards" Butler ● John Marin's "Lobster Fishermen" (detail) ● Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) ● F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ● William Faulkner (1897-1962) ● Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) ● Ezra Pound (1885-1972) ● Robert Frost (1874-1963) ● Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) ● Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)    
 

PicturePack H05: The Politics of the 1920s ● John Thomas Scopes (1900-1970) ● The Scopes trial in July 1925 ● Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) ● Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) ● The World Disarmament Conference of 1921 ● Marines in Nicaraugua, 1927 ● Harding’s Attorney General resigned in scandal ● "Teapot Dome" principals ● Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) as vice president ● Coolidge, the 30th president ● First Lady Grace Anna Coolidge, (1879-1957) ● Cartoon, Calvin Coolidge’s conservative approach ● Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) ● Sec. of State Kellogg & Foreign Minister Briand ● Hoover Dam ● Irrigated potato field in the Central Valley, CA ● Building Owens Valley Aqueduct, Dead Man’s Canyon ● Cartoon, Calvin Coolidge, August 1928 ● Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) ● Map: electoral vote, 1928 election ● Wall Street in New York City, 1924 ● Traders on floor, New York Stock Exchange ● The trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade   
  

PicturePack H06: The Great Depression ● Drought-stricken Arkansas corn ● An Iowa farm foreclosure sale in the early 1930s ● The New York Times headline of Oct. 25, 1929 ● A communist demonstration at the White House ● A soup kitchen set up by Al Capone ● A "squatter" in Chicago, May 1930 ● A soup line in New York City ● Unemployed war veteran ● Efforts by Red Cross workers to feed children ● Women collect petitions for repeal of prohibition ● Unemployed marchers at the Capitol, 1932 ● The Bonus Army camp in Washington D.C ● Veterans of the "Bonus Army" confront police ● General MacArthur directs Bonus Army evacuation ● MacArthur ordered burning of veteran’s camp   
  

PicturePack H07: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ● Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) ● Roosevelt’s home at Hyde Park, New York ● The inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ● FDR speaks to the nation in a "Fireside Chat." ● An RCA 1929 floor model radio ● Crowd of depositors stands outside the Union Bank ● James A. Farley (1888-1976) ● Harold LeClaire Ickes (1874-1952) ● Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979) ● Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946) ● General Hugh S. Johnson (1882-1942) ● A National Recovery Administration (NRA) poster ● Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) ● Anti-prohibition activist ● African-American men with a load of furniture ● A marginal farm at Widtsoe, Utah ● The drought conditions that began in the 1920s ● Drought refugees fled to other regions ● Child of an African-American tenant farmer ● An AAA exhibit ● Three million Americans abandoned their farms ● The Tygart CCC camp in West Virginia ● Enrollees in an African-American CCC camp ● An arc welder reinforces concrete conduits ● Generators in powerhouse at TVA’s Pickwick Dam ● Building sewage disposal tank in Yakima, WA ● New road under construction in Menard County, TX ● Service projects of WPA ● A WPA tent theater in San Bernardino, California ● Cattleman’s daughter drawing a pack train ● WPA projects encouraged folk arts and crafts  
 

PicturePack H08: Roosevelt’s Critics and the Second New Deal ● Rev. Charles E. Coughlin (1891-1979) ● Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) ● FDR as president ● Young LBJ shakes hands with FDR ● Mary McCleod Bethune (1875-1955) ● Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987) ● Map: electoral votes, 1936 election ● Frances Perkins (1882-1965) ● Strikers interrupted by 200 deputy sheriffs ● Open battle between police and striking Teamsters ● Strike preceding the "Memorial Day Massacre." ● Father of a Farm Security Administration client ● FDR signs the Social Security Act ● Eleanor Roosevelt supports FDR’s shift to left ● Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial ● A Navajo hogan at Datil, New Mexico, 1940 ● Mexican-American workers on strike in CA, 1933 ● Migrant worker camp in California ● FSA migrant workers’ camp at Farmersville, CA ● The headquarters of an REA cooperative ● A farm wife using her washing machine ● Cartoon, FDR’s 1937 Court-packing proposal ● State unemployment line in San Francisco, 1938 ● John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) ● "Old Reliable."  
 

PicturePack H09: 1930s Art, Leisure, Celebrities & Aviation ● Frederick Lewis Allen ● John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) ● John Steinbeck (1902-1968) ● Richard Wright (1908-1960) ● An etching by Edward Hopper ● Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) ● Greta Garbo and John Barrymore ● James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913-1981) ● The arrival of Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) ● A Douglas DC-3, commercial airliner ● Glenn Martin China Clipper ● The dirigible Akron   
 

PicturePack H10: 1930s Diplomacy and the Beginnings of World War II ● Marines in Haiti evacuate the Haitian capital ● Roosevelt’s "Good Neighbor Policy." ● Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) ● Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) ● Abyssinian (Ethiopian) infantry, 1936 ● Senator Gerald P. Nye (1892-1971) ● Charles A. Lindbergh and Hermann Goering ● Terrified baby after Japanese attack on Shanghai ● Roosevelt condemned invasions of Ethiopia & China ● Survivors of the gunboat U.S.S. Panay ● Signing German/Russian non-aggression pact, 1939 ● German troops advancing into Poland ● German invaders in Norway, April 1940 ● Germans almost trap British & French troops ● On June 14, 1940, France surrendered ● Senator Robert A. Taft, prominent isolationist ● St. Paul’s in London during the Blitz ● Firemen in a bomb-damaged street in London ● World War I 4-stacker destroyers at Philadelphia ● Cartoon, Roosevelt’s third term campaign ● Wendell Willkie (1892-1944) ● Congress authorized a "lend-lease" program, 1941