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@respectfully.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:38 PM

Negro Preacher reading the scriptures to Negro man, San Antonio, Texas (1939 Mar)
By: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017739456/

Negro Preacher reading the scriptures to Negro man, San Antonio, Texas. Photographed by Lee, Russell, 1903-1986. Dated 1939 Mar. From the Library of Congress, ammem.

@respectfully.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 11:41 AM

Gas station on Dodge Street encroaching on private home, Omaha, Nebraska (1938 Nov) By: Vachon, John, 1914-1975 #FSA #GreatDepression #historicalphotos https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017717659/

Gas station on Dodge Street encroaching on private home, Omaha, Nebraska. Photographed by Vachon, John, 1914-1975. Dated 1938 Nov. From the Library of Congress, ammem.

@edward2962.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 3:31 PM

A comedy road movie period piece by the Coen Bros #greatdepression #georgeclooney #offbeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0R...

@sagedemage.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 10:33 PM

Pre-Covid vs Post-Covid World

#covid19
#precovid
#postcovid
#greatdepression
#darkworld

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 6:44 AM

In #SEPTEMBER 1939
‘FSA county supervisor discussing farm plan with rehabilitation client. Grant, County, Wisconsin.’ #FarmSecurityAdministration Rural Rehabilitation Program. September 1939.
#FSA #TheNewDeal #farming #GreatDepression #blackandwhitephotography

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=3466

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 6:34 AM

In #SEPTEMBER 1935
“We are so happy about the President’s plan to redistribute the wealth.”
Cartoon by Robert Day from *Life*, September 1935
#cartoons #cartoonist #RobertDay #TheNewDeal #FDR #GreatDepression

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 6:28 AM

In #SEPTEMBER 1930
‘Closed bank. Haverhill, Iowa’ Photograph by Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985). #FarmSecurityAdministration / Office of War Information. September 1939.
👉ALT
#GreatDepression #BankingCrisis #Haverhill #Iowa #ArthurRothstein #TheNewDeal #photographers

‘Many smaller banks, such as this one in Haverhill, Iowa, lacked sufficient reserves to stay in business and became no more than convenient billboards. Many of the small banks had lent large portions of their assets for stock market speculation and were virtually put out of business overnight when the market crashed. In all, 9,000 banks failed-taking with them $7 billion in depositors' assets. And in the 1930s there was no such thing as deposit insurance-this was a New Deal reform. When a bank failed the depositors were simply left without a penny. The life savings of millions of Americans were wiped out by the bank failures.’ - http://www.ssa.gov/history/bank.html
Library of Congress photo, LC-USF34- 028362-D
Image from https://www.loc.gov/item/2017778599/

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 7:06 AM

#OTD in 1936
(hopeful [or wishful?] political allegory in an election year)
Cover of The New Yorker, September 12, 1936
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #GreatDepression #Deficit #nationaldebt #governmentspending

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 7:56 AM

#OTD in 1931
Depression humor
'Salesmen? Well, I should say not. Those are customers!'
Cartoon by Frank Hanley from (the old) *Life*, September 11, 1931
#GreatDepression #cartoons #FrankHanley #cartoonists

@probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 10:48 PM

the townsend movement of the 1930s: dr. francis townsend's plan for $200/month pensions for the elderly drew millions into clubs nationwide. it pressured congress into social security. mass left and populist movements made FDR's 'gifts' possible. #greatdepression #usthelped

@elmsduran1949.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 10:20 PM

The Great Depression devastated millions of American families, but *The New Deal Coalition.

[https://www.amazon.com/author/armandooscarolmos](www.amazon.com/author/arman...)

#GreatDepression #NewDeal #FDR #FrancesPerkins #AmericanLabor #AmericanHistory

@sheldonkitty.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 6:33 PM

A really good essay in a really good series. It might make you re-think #PresidentHoover
#GreatDepression #WWI #NewDeal
substack.com/@inpursuitus...

@cissybgood67.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 6:00 PM

Drumpf's threat to halt trade 'will make the #GreatDepression look like a walk in the park'

www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

@johnokeefe.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 4:09 PM

The reference: while Mexican Repatriation is often thought of as a Southwestern phenomenon, other regions of the country engaged in this often coercive "voluntary" repatriation as well. Ohio also participated as well. NYT 20 March 1934. #ohiohistory #mexicanrepatriation #skystorians #greatdepression

Short NYT article text - headline "300 Mexicans to Leave Ohio"

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:07 AM

In #SEPTEMBER 1933
‘These young men are getting a reprieve from poverty and unemployment, in the #CCC [Civilian Conservation Corps] at #StJoeNationalForest, #Idaho.’
National Archives photo, September 1933
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#GreatDepression #blackandwhitephotography #TheNewDeal

https://livingnewdeal.org/new-deal-smiles/nggallery/page/6

@sentinelcolorado.com Sep 6, 2026, 5:16 PM

ICYMI - PERRY: My mom taught me that when life really sucks, it's time to order more straws

‘If all of those hundreds of pens quit writing, why didn’t you throw them away?’

sbee.link/c9pvukhwrd

#GreatDepression #RockyFord #SandwichGeneration

@editordaveperry.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 5:16 PM

ICYMI - PERRY: My mom taught me that when life really sucks, it's time to order more straws

‘If all of those hundreds of pens quit writing, why didn’t you throw them away?’

sbee.link/c9pvukhwrd

#GreatDepression #RockyFord #SandwichGeneration