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Free Theatre! (Courtesy of Uncle Sam)

kostrom wrote 6 days ago: All photos taken by the Works Progress Administration of the Federal Theatre Project, ca. 1937 Dawn … more →

Tags: Federal Theatre Project, FTP, Great Depression, National Labor Relations Act, New Deal, WPA

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (June 23, 2009)

laurameyerlaurameyer wrote 3 weeks ago: Just got home from another incredible Telluride Bluegrass Festival.  Here’s a slideshow featur … more →

Tags: tour, Music, Travel, Pictures], Colorado, New York, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Yonder Mountain String Band, telluride

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (June 23, 2009)

laurameyerlaurameyer wrote 3 weeks ago: Just got home from another incredible Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Here’s a slideshow featur … more →

Tags: Todd Snider, Sam Bush, Yonder Mountain String Band, emmylou harris, mystic valley band, David Byrne, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Conor Oberst, jenny lewis

June by Dux1 comment

madsilence wrote 1 month ago: June by Alexander Dux. 1938. Image Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, WP … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Life, Federal Art Project, WPA

Who Was Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother?

havealittletalk wrote 1 month ago: In an earlier post I noted that one of the most famous American photographs of the twentieth century … more →

Tags: Historical, Library Of Congress, People, Migrant Mother, American Memory Collection, Art Department of the Oakland Museum of California, California, Cleo Owens, Dorothea Lange

Photographic Legacy of New Deal Stimulus Plan, or Images from the Farm Security Administration1 comment

havealittletalk wrote 1 month ago: Have you ever heard of the Farm Security Administration (FSA)? I expect not, but this was a New Deal … more →

Tags: Historical, Library Of Congress, People, Migrant Mother, Alabama, Ann Rosener, Arthur Rothstein, Cimarron County, Dorothea Lange

WPA Posters Collection, Online at the Library of Congress

havealittletalk wrote 1 month ago: I keep hoping that the economic stimulus plan will include funding for the arts, but I haven’t seen … more →

Tags: Historical, Library Of Congress, WPA, Alexander Dux, Emauel DeColas, Frank S. Nicholson, John Buczak, Leslie Bryan Burroughs, Phil von Phul

Give me that old-time stimulus

tburton1004 wrote 2 months ago: by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation With all the talk in the news about the economi … more →

Tags: History, Fort Collins Museum, economic stimulus, Pioneer Museum, Carnegie Library, Great Depression

Colorado During the Great Depression

empresstj wrote 3 months ago: Dust storm in Colorado.                  The Great Depression brought hard times on Colorado until … more →

Tags: History, Colorado, John Galen Locke, Josephine Roche, Camp Hale, Moffat Tunnel, Remington Arms Plant, Civilian Conservation Corps, National Recovery Administration

Letter Writing/Communication In A Discordant World 4 comments

Neil Aquino wrote 3 months ago: It might be time to write someone a letter. I’ve been thinking that for myself of late, but I … more →

Tags: Art, Books, Communication, letter-writing, Letters Of The Century, National Letter Writing Week

Waffles & Glen's new band2 comments

postymcposterton wrote 3 months ago: Two unrelated, but equally good things… There’s a new waffle place in Eugene.  It … more →

Tags: New Sounds, Food, Music News, eugene, glen phillips, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Oregon, nickel creek, Waffle

Public works program paid folks to whittle

Scott King wrote 3 months ago: Federal program funded whittlers. Did you know back during the Depression our government spent mone … more →

Tags: Editorials, Articles, Politics, WPA, New Deal, Public Works Programs

Recessions, Depressions and Art

rbrask wrote 4 months ago: I don’t think that one can make it through any given day in this year of 2009 without at least … more →

Tags: Abstract Painting, Expressionism, expressionist, Artist Thoughts, Painting, Artist, abstract art critic, abstract process, abstract dialog

WPA Posters from the Library of Congress3 comments

lolarusa wrote 4 months ago: The Library of Congress has extensive online digital collections, including a comprehensive collecti … more →

Tags: Ephemera, advertising, Fun, History, Illustration, 30s, Great Depression, 40s, WPA

Then versus now3 comments

paulsunyak wrote 4 months ago: In the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created New Deal programs to help peopl … more →

Tags: General Interest, Politics, Civilian Conservation Corps, Great Depression, obama stimulus, paul sunyak

Entering Our Own 'Lost Decade'1 comment

deadmanscurve wrote 5 months ago: The Japanese had theirs in the 1990s—now it’s our turn. Depression, not recession, is the corr … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, tarp, Economics, Depression, recession, fiscal stimulus, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Interest Rates

Hey, Mitch McConnell, are you sure you're from Kentucky?

fromlaurelstreet wrote 5 months ago: Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA, now conducted b … more →

Tags: Historical, Economy, Electioneering, Republicans, Civilian Conservation Corps, Mitch McConnell, Obstructionism, Kentucky, Tennessee Valley Authority

"Hard Times," by Studs Terkel: Essential Reading for These Tmes

Ron Pavellas wrote 5 months ago: I have been writing a memoir for years 1937-1958, my first 21 years. This period in my life falls ne … more →

Tags: Books and Literature, Government, History, Federal Writers Project, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hard Times, Studs Terkel, The Great Depression

9. Theme 126 ~Mural~8 comments

Madelaine wrote 6 months ago: This amazing mural is on a wall in a Post Office in one of the neighboring towns. It was painted in … more →

Tags: Photography by Madelaine Cappuccio, mural, Wall, Post office, WPA, Great Depression, Artist, Thomas Donnelly, FDR


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