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1930's

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White photographs from the FSA-OFI, 1935-1941.

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/index.html
The Depression News: the 1930’s Michigan Historical Museum

http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
New Deal Network

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html
Kingwood College Library American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century Section on 1930-1939

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/
Surviving the Dustbowl A companion website to the PBS program. There is a timeline, a section on people and events and special features which include the memoir of a Dust Bowl farmer and the government’s response with the New Deal.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/
Riding the Rails. A companion website to the PBS program. It includes a timeline, map, accounts of teenage hobos, the plight of African American hobos, and hobo songs.

Sites for songs of the thirties:
http://www.parlorsongs.com/issues/1998-10/oct98feature.asp
Parlor Songs: In Search of American Popular Song – 1800s-1920s Songs from the depression era.

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html
Songs of the Great Depression. Lyrics of three popular songs of the period.

Sierra's WPA Sites:

Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr08.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html

NARA:
http://www.archives.gov/

Photo Archives:
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p169/p169.html

Slave Narratives:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/

Mural Projects:
http://www.wpamurals.com/

WPA: African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam012.html