Thursday, June 30, 2022

The New Deal built and improved American Indian schools. Today, we're letting them crumble.

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Above: Very early on in the New Deal, funds started flowing towards American Indian infrastructure needs, for example, schools. The text ab...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

FDR delivered us privacy. Republicans want to take it away, and then leer into our bedrooms.

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Busybody : "A person who pries into or meddles in the affairs of others." ( Dictionary.com ) Above: "Private Road," an ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2022

Thousands of CWA trees for Berkeley, California

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Above: Part of an article from The San Francisco Examiner , February 23, 1934, p. 2. The article reports that 8,500 trees had already been ...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

CCC Company 556 (Indiana) at ages 4, 29, 49, and 88. "It was the first time in my life I had enough to eat."

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CCC Company 556, Camp SP-7, Pokagon State Park, Indiana... At age 4 (1938): Above: From the Steuben Republican (Angola, Indiana), April 6,...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

The most prolific of New Deal art: The Jefferson Nickel

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Above: The Jefferson Nickel was designed by Felix Schlag in 1938, and was the result of a competition by the New Deal's Treasury Sectio...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Meet the Three C's of Glendora, California: Camp Dalton Canyon

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  Unless otherwise noted, all photos are from: Civilian Conservation Corps, Official Annual, 1938, Los Angeles District, Ninth Corps Area, B...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Helen Tamiris and the WPA Dance Theatre Strike - 85 years ago this month

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Above: This photo was taken on May 19, 1937, and shows picketers outside the Nora Bayes Theatre, New York City. They are protesting cuts to...
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