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Movies, Music, Art, and Literature of the 1930's
Modern Times by Call Number: DRAMA MOD DVDISBN: 9781681431291Publication Date: 1931Originally released in 1936.
Gastonia gallop : cotton mill songs & hillbilly blues.Call Number: FOLK GASTONIA CD"Piedmont textile workers on record, Gaston County, North Carolina, 1927-1931"--Container. Recorded at various locations between 1927-1931.
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess [DVD] by Call Number: PERFORMANCE GER DVDFirst premiered on Broadway 1935.
Superman by Call Number: 741.5 DANISBN: 0811821625Superman first appeared in 1938, pursuing "truth, justice, and the American Way."
- Park Bench / Langston HughesI live on a park bench.
You, Park Avenue.
Hell of a distance
Between us two. ...
See more at poemhunter.com
Jazz legends in concert [DVD]Call Number: PERFORMANCE JAZ DVDISBN: 9780769789323Performers featured include: Cab Calloway [Minnie the Moocher] ...
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Billie Holiday's greatest hits [CD]Call Number: BLUES HOLIDAY CD
100 Best Songs of the 20s and 30s by Call Number: 784.5 OISBN: 0517245159Includes "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Piano/Vocal with Guitar chords.- Hard hitting songs for hard-hit people; [American folk songs of the Depression and the labor movement of the 1930's] byCall Number: R784.497 LReference; non-circulating.
- “Cotton Field and Spinning Mill”
– oil on canvas by Francis Speight (1938) WPA/TRAP Gastonia Post Office mural.
Librarian
General History
Search our Catalog by Subject for: Depressions 1929.
The Great Depression by Call Number: 973.916 GREISBN: 9780716615057Publication Date: 2010-11-01A brief illustrated history of the period.
The Depression years : as reported by the New York Times by Call Number: R909.82 DEPISBN: 0405095465Publication Date: 1976-01-01Reproduces pages from The New York Times. Non-circulating
- The Crash of '29The New York Times' coverage of the 1929 stock market collapse retropective.
- Great DepressionGreat Depression as explained in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Prohibition [DVD] by Call Number: DOCUMENTARY PRO DVDISBN: 1415760284Publication Date: 2011The debate continues regarding the effect of Prohibition and its repeal in 1933 on society.
The New Deal, Politics and Politicians
Search our Catalog by Keyword for: New Deal
FDR and the American Crisis by Call Number: 923.172 MARISBN: 9780385753593Publication Date: 2015-01-06
America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal by Call Number: 973.917 GOLISBN: 9781439196014Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- FDR Presidential Library & MuseumResources for Students include The Periodic Table of the New Deal.
- The New Deal – Related Web SitesProvides a list of websites relating to the New Deal era. National Archives
Social Conditions
Search our Catalog by Keyword for: Dust Bowl.
Women of Valor : the struggle against the great depression as told in their own life stories by Call Number: 303.48 WISBN: 0929587340Publication Date: 1990-08-01
To Ask for an Equal Chance : African Americans in the Great Depression by Call Number: 305.896 GREISBN: 9780742551893Publication Date: 2010-10-16
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Call Number: 330 .973 MELISBN: 0816023727Publication Date: 1990-11-01Hear the anthem of the Great Depression, the song Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? at NPR.
Go to: http://www.npr.org/2008/11/15/96654742/a-depression-era-anthem-for-our-times
Dancing in the Dark by Call Number: 973.91 DICISBN: 9780393072259Publication Date: 2009-09-14"shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country."
A square meal : a Culinary History of the Great Depression by Call Number: 641.597 ZIEISBN: 9780062216410Publication Date: 2016-08-16
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : Letters from Children of the Great Depression by Call Number: 973.917 DEAISBN: 0807854131Publication Date: 2002-10-28
- Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS video)
In 1931 the rains stopped and the “black blizzards” began. PBS The American Experience series. Requires library card to access from home. NC Live PBS Videos.
The South During the Depression
The Great Depression - How We Coped, Worked and Played by Call Number: 338.542 GREISBN: 1893597040Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Testing the New Deal : the general textile strike of 1934 in the American South by Call Number: 331.892 IROISBN: 025202527XPublication Date: 2000-02-29
The Way We Lived in North Carolina by Call Number: 975.6 WAY N.C.ISBN: 0807828149Publication Date: 2003-12-08Express Lanes & Country Roads is reprinted in this volume, along with four other books.
Photographs/Illustrations
Hard Luck Blues : Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression by Call Number: 779 REMISBN: 9780252035241Publication Date: 2010-03-08- This Fabulous Century, Volume 4: 1930-1940. byCall Number: 917.303 T v. 4ISBN: 0356040933Publication Date: 1969-
- The New Deal Art Projects; an Anthology of Memoirs byCall Number: 709.73 NISBN: 0874741130Publication Date: 1972-04-01
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
These photographs form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. - 1930s-40s in Colorphoto collection from the Library of Congress
- Bayard Morgan Wootten Photographic CollectionA small collection of her photos of North Carolina, circa 1870-1988 (bulk 1904-1954), many from the 1930's.
Classics of the Great Depression
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![Gone With the Wind [DVD] 1939](http://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/38218/images/Gone_with_the_wind_dvd_1939_slide.jpg)
Author: Gaston County Public Library
Title: The Great Depression: Life in Hard Times, 1929 - 1942
URL: https://gastonlibrary.libguides.com/geography-history/the-great-depression-life-in-hard-times-1929-1942
Revised: 13 October 2022