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Tag Archives: Great depression
Great Depression
This video would be playing on a television set in a shop window as the main character walks by, as though it was a news program. He stops to see what the rest of the world is watching about what he is living through. There is no sound as he is outside the shop. He walks away shaking his head as if to say, “if they only knew the half of it”.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression
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Hoovervilles
This is an image of a Hooverville that I would use in a montage of my film as the character recounts his experience living in one of these shanty towns. They are dubbed Hooverville after President Herbert Hoover who let the country slide into depression. I would like to show my audience that Hoovervilles formed across America and were the last resort for homeless families during the Great Depression. Ordinary people were forced to build new homes for themselves out of whatever material they could find. Most of the residents of Hoovervilles were unemployed and begged for food from charities and other families.
Image taken from u-s-history.com
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression, Hooverville
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Jazz Age 1920 to 1929
This song is from YouTube. It was introduced in the first recording of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, which is generally considered as one of the bands who had their first Jazz recording in 1917. Their recordings sparked the Jazz Age of the United States.
The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World War I, through the roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression. Jazz was first performed in New Orleans dating from the early 1910s. In 1920s Following World War I, African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States. With them, they brought their Jazz culture to big cities like New York and Chicago. During this period of time, Jazz was popular music performance in bars, dancing halls and night clubs. Jazz was also changed men’s and women’s fashion style as well.
Posted in 1916-1920, 1920-1932, Cultural History, June 28 assignment
Tagged African American, employment, first jazz recording, Great depression, Jazz, jazz age, music, New Orleans, World War I
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The New Deal
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the New Deals most ambitious programs. This program helped to put millions of people back to work by funding projects for highways, roads, school buildings, and sewage plants among the many other public works projects during the Great Depression Era. The poster above was frequently displayed nearby one of the funded work sites.
The New Deal was a group of economic programs implemented during president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term in office. These programs were focused responses to the effects of the Great Depression. Overall, the programs can be summarized as focusing on the “3 Rs” which were relief, recovery, and reform. A number of programs were passed which still effect us today including the Glass-Steagall Banking Act and the Social Security Act.
The above image was taken from the National Archives.
The crash of 1929
This image is from Time.com, and it belongs to the Bettmann-Corbis archive. The picture was taken during the Great Depression that began on October 29, 1929, which is also known as Black Tuesday.
The first time I saw this picture was during a recent visit to the MoMA. At first, the image makes me smile because it shows a humorous aspect in a tragic time. During the Great depression approximately 25% of population was unemployed and affected every segment of society. The picture is important to me because it reminds me that history is repeating itself. Like in the Great depression, the world is now experiencing a huge economic downturn due to the failure of the traditional financial system.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1677033_1474476,00.html
Posted in 1920-1932, Economic History, June 7 assignment, Social History
Tagged 1929, economics, finance, Great depression, stock market, unemployment
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