great depression, 1929-1939

During the hard times of 1932, a poor shoe shine man gives a child his cap, gloves, and an angel made from a spool, then receives a wonderful gift in return.

The Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of the Great Depression & New Deal. The 20 Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources are: 1. Photograph of a crowd outside the New York Stock Exchange after the crash - 1929 2. Photograph of unemployed men waiting outside a soup kitchen in Chicago - February 1931 3. Photograph of a crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression - 1931 4. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt talking to a farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia - 1932 5. Photograph of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps constructing a road - 1933 6. Letter regarding the funding for the Civilian Conservation Corps - April 5, 1933 7. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 - August 14, 1935 8. Photograph of a "Hoover wagon" - used by farmers to save on gasoline - 1935 9. Photograph of Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugees - San Fernando, California - June 1935 10. Photograph of Florence Thompson with several of her children during the Dust Bowl - entitled "Migrant Mother" - February 1936 11. Photograph of a farmer and his sons walking in a dust storm - Cimarron County, Oklahoma - April 1936 12. Photograph of buried machinery in Dallas, South Dakota, during the Dust Bowl - May 13, 1936 13. Photograph of a poor mother and her children during the Great Depression - Elm Grove, California - August 1936 14. Photograph of construction on the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon - Public Works Administration project - October 24, 1936 15. Poster advertising Social Security benefits - 1938 16. Photograph of William Gropper's "Construction of a Dam" mural - 1939 17. Photograph of an anti-relief protest sign near Davenport, Iowa - 1940 18. Advertisement for the Workers Service Program in Rockford, Illinois - part of the Work Project Administration - 1941 19. Photograph of a girl pumping water from a well that is her town's sole water supply - project of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942 20. Map of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942.

On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness.

During the Great Depression, aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge uncovers a mystery surrounding a secret room in the rundown mansion owned by elderly Miss Mundis.

Before Kit can write a news story about an upcoming sold-out jazz concert, sinister pranks threaten to cancel the show and Kit is falsely accused of stealing a valuable trumpet.

"In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her own opinion, to go completely mad with boredom"--Jacket flap.

Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Great Depression? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, A Day in the Life section, index, and glossary also included. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.

A modern-day girl finds herself in 1933 Cincinnati, Ohio, and as she and Kit experience life during the Great Depression, the reader is invited to choose how Kit might help her family and others who are less fortunate.

"'Turning Things Around,' the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"--Provided by publisher.