Small-Town Life 1930s Illinois & the Midwest

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
Advertisements

BEGINNING ESL LESSON. Cities have houses, apartments, office buildings, stores, and streets.
Is the Amish Society Good or Bad?
A five star country. Is a NGO that belongs to the Episcopal Church. To work toward the self sufficiency of the church and to improve the living conditions.
My Place in Time and Space Trailer Camp Projects.
Central New Jersey’s Regional Land Trust Innovative Preservation Partnerships Using Non-Profits.
A Social Studies Unit For 3A and Their Families What is a community? A community is a place where people... Work Play Live.
Alison Martin Chris Esterguard.  Tim and Kathy Fuller  Married 30 years  Kathy also works as a special ed. teacher  2 children: son and daughter 
By Mrs. Witt, Mrs. O’Hara, and Mrs. Christnacht.  This is our Deer Lodge library.  It is named after Conrad Kohrs’ son, William Kohrs.  William died.
Economic impact of immigration in the Rural Midwest
The Grapes of Wrath.
Second New Deal: Farmers Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Replaced Agricultural Adjustment Act.
RECENT NON-TRADITIONAL RURAL RESIDENTS AND THE URBAN-RURAL INTERFACE.
Pictures of the Depression Era in Caswell, Orange, and Person Counties.
Walker Evans By: Haley Rudolph Walker Evans By: Haley Rudolph.
Farm Service Agency. Farm Loan Programs Beth Sant – Farm Loan Manager Jessica Davis- Farm Loan Officer Jeff Larsen- Farm Loan Officer Angela Sandoval-
America’s Quilting History Could quilting teach us something about our history? Let’s find out !!!! Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie.
Rural Housing Services: Community Facilities and Single Family Housing.
The Brief History of Quilt Making. From Asia to Europe Quilted fabric has been used from the beginning of time. Our ancestors discovered that the sewing.
Taxes © 2013 Created by Sally Camden ~ The Reflective Educator ~
By daniel.  Summary: In 1853, the Great Western Railroad Company borrowed $1,000,000 and issued bonds in various denominations to pay back the loan.
An Eye on Reality. Farm Security Administration: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. (Circa February 1936)
Building Communinity Sharing Hope Towards Food Security Towards Food Security The House of Lazarus Food Bank serves a rural population in the counties.
MPA_Session 51 Session 5 Unit 8: What’s your neighborhood like? Saturday, 29 November 2008.
DOCUMENTARY and PHOTOJOURNALISM PHOTOGRAPHY Lewis Hine Dorothea Lange.
Photographs of American Life and Developments from *Taken by the Farm Security Administration and Office Of War Information and stored in the.
123 Can you count with me? Boyd Jones doing his arithmetic lesson at the blackboard in the Alexander Community School in Greene County, Georgia. America.
You will be put into groups. Group 1 You are a very rich family. The husband has built up his clothes making business, from the age of 16 and is the companies.
Bits and Pieces of Historic Deer Lodge Historical Buildings People tied to Grant-Kohrs Ranch Did you know?People tied to Deer Lodge Grant-Kohrs Ranch 10.
ICADV—09-10Domestic Violence Homicide: Social Impact and Community Costs The Impact of Domestic Violence Homicide, October 2010.
ONC Our Neighbors Child Lauren Yates. What is ONC?  ONC is a non-profit, community based organization that provides holiday gifts for children in low.
Case (Individuals): Mrs. Eman is a relict woman, she works in private company with monthly salary 1850 NIS, She has three sons and lives in a rent house.
DEPRESSION ERA PHOTOS. (picture 1) Farm Security Administration: Destitute Mother of seven children (Circa February 1936)
WHAT TYPES OF ITEMS CAN YOU SEND TO THE CATALOGING MAINTENANCE CENTER (CMC)?
Mays Avenue Community Camp, Oklahoma City
ARIZONA EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM.  States must report annually to OSEP on the primary early intervention service setting for all children reported.
Sarah Key Reno County Health Department
Manifest Destiny and the Movement West. Population Growth The Population of the United States grew from 5 Million to 30 Million people between
SFVC is a 29-year old private non-profit organization that depends on support from our community. We offer crisis intervention, shelter and advocacy services.
There Will Be Wolves A Historical Perspective. The Middle Ages People lived in small farming communities No modern technology – no electricity, running.
In the English Village An English village is not very large. There are several houses, a village shop, a church and a pub in it. Usually there is no school.
A Zoom in Inquiry Children at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Camelback Farms inspect the photographer's camera, Phoenix, Arizona Library of Congress.
Did you know? In 2007, Duval County had 371 farms, a decrease of 11 farms from 2002.
Abigail Adams By:Hailey Champagne Erin Mathews Kendall Roland.
Gee’s Bend, Alabama A Look into the Community before Resettlement Administration Involvement.
3/4/2016 University of Missouri - Columbia 1 Bethany\Harrison County, Missouri.
Communities All over the world, people live in communities.
Kalkaska County  Kalkaska is a small rural county in Northern Michigan  Consisting of square miles  In 2012 the population was estimated.
Bowdoinham, Maine: Member of the WHO-GNAFCC & AARP-NAFC William Post, MPA Town Manager.
Dysclan ESTABLISH DECEMBER Katena Intro  I have always been a teacher of some form. I have always love children. I am a military wife, mother of.
Depression-Era Color Photographs It was an era that defined a generation. The Great Depression marked the bitter and abrupt end to the post-World War 1.
Lincoln Related Place Names Lincoln Square In Downtown Decatur, Illinois.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. (Proverbs 18:22)
Chapter 16: State and Local Government Section 3: Local Government & Citizen Participation (pgs )
Dust Bowl and Migrant Life 1930s Great Depression
McChesney and Miller In 1862, Joseph R. McChesney, a resident of Glen Ellyn, figured out that the townspeople needed a store in his town. He decided to.
Celebrities all over the world
The Great Depression.
Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl. Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl.
Images from the Life of Dred Scott
A Virtual Tour of a Beautiful Community
Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz. 1940
The Split Cherry Tree By Jesse Stuart.
Depression-Era Color Photographs
The Great Depression.
FDR in a dress … =.
The Great Depression Through Photographs
The advertisement above is a stereotypical example of women being stay at home moms. This advertisement counters a gender stereotype because the woman.
Annie’s Project history Oklahoma Annie’s Project
Presentation transcript:

Small-Town Life 1930s Illinois & the Midwest Images from the Library of Congress

Church. Energy, Illinois.

A typical rural Illinois community church A typical rural Illinois community church. Perryton Township, Mercer County, Illinois.

House in Ottawa, Illinois.

House in Shawneetown, Illinois.

School, Herrin, Illinois.

A farmer comes to town. Shawneetown, Illinois.

Horses and wagon tied to hitching post. Joy, Illinois.

The main street of Shawneetown, Illinois.

Sign in store selling out, Aledo, Illinois.

Smalltown volunteer fire department at work. Aledo, Illinois.

In front of a grocery store. Shawneetown, Illinois.

Old man on the street in Shawneetown, Illinois.

Woman sitting in front of a grocery store. Shawneetown, Illinois.

Street scene in Danville, Illinois.

Cupboard in Eldorado, Illinois residence.

Mrs. Oscar Gaither and two of her five children in their farmhouse near McLeansboro, Illinois. Gaither is a tenant farmer of eighty acres.

Mother and daughter, FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrowers. They run the farm by themselves. Grant County, Illinois.

Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower sewing a quilt. Grant County, Illinois.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase borrower and family FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase borrower and family. Crawford County, Illinois.

Wife and child of FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase borrower, Crawford County, Illinois.

Farmer in town, Saturday afternoon, Steele, Missouri.