Teacher’s Guide
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The New Deal Teacher's Guide (PDF, 1.64 MB)
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Primary Sources
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Relief client Near Oil City, Oklahoma
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(937 KB)Grand Canyon National Park, a free government service
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(163 KB)Rehabilitation client repays loan. Smithfield, North Carolina
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(45 KB)Mount McKinley HQ, Superintendent's Residence...
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(931 KB)Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums
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(120 KB)Workers service program ... Rockford, Illinois
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(125 KB)CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers
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(1.3 MB)“Help your-self” A 3 act comedy
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(179 KB)Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative
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(145 KB)PWA Housing Projects for Negroes
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(262 KB)“Afternoon in a Pushcart Peddlers’ Colony.”
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(1.25 MB)Tennessee Valley Area: Pictorial Map
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Above the construction work, the aggregate storage pile...
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