Digitized Materials
Materials from New Deal Programs | Other
Materials from the Period | Prints and Photographs Online
Catalog
While the majority of the Library's holdings of New Deal
program materials have not been digitized, digital versions
of selected materials created by New Deal programs, as well
as other related materials from the period, are available
in the following Library of Congress online collections.
Most of these collections may be accessed from the
Library's American
Memory Web site.
Materials Produced by New Deal Programs
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs
from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of
War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary
photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government
photographers, the images show Americans in every part of
the nation. More...
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1940
These interviews or "life histories," were compiled
and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the
Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later
Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library
of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing
the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. More...
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938
This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former
slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part
of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United
States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Built
in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic
American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements
in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States
and its territories. Administered since 1933 through cooperative
agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of
Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the
National Park Service have recorded America's built environment
in multiformat surveys comprising more than 350,000 measured
drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories
for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating
from pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.
By
the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
This collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically
diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA
posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection
of more than 900 is the largest. More...
California
Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
This New Deal project was organized and directed by folk
music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern
California Work Projects Administration. A multiformat ethnographic
field collection, it includes sound recordings, still photographs,
drawings, and written documents from a variety of European
ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern
California. More...
Florida
Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
This multiformat ethnographic field collection documents
African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban,
Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout
Florida. Recorded in conjunction with the Florida Federal
Writers' Project, the Florida Music Project, and the Joint
Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects Administration,
it features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including
blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad
gangs, and turpentine camps; children's songs, dance music,
and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also
known as "life histories." The online presentation provides
access to sound
recordings and accompanying materials,
including recording logs, transcriptions, correspondence
between Florida WPA workers and Library of Congress personnel,
and an essay on Florida folklife by Zora Neale Hurston.
The
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project,
1935-1939
The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related
projects established during the first term of President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration
(WPA). This online presentation includes images of items
selected from the Federal Theatre
Project Collection at the Library of Congress.
Traditional
Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife
Center
The card catalog represented in this online database was
first created by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers
in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and continued by the Archive
of Folk Song (now part of the American Folklife Center) staff
into the early 1960s. More...
Voices
from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
The recordings of former slaves in Voices from the Days of
Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories come from several
collections held in the American Folklife Center's Archive
of Folk Culture. They were made by various interviewers working
in nine Southern states between 1932 and 1975. Three
of the recordings were made for the Commonwealth of Virginia
between 1937 and 1940 by Roscoe E. Lewis in affiliation with
the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress
Administration (WPA).
Voices
from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin
Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
An online presentation of a multiformat ethnographic field
collection documenting the everyday life of residents of
Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in
central California in 1940 and 1941. More...
Other Materials from the Period
After
the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following
the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs
by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955
Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
Freedom's
Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The
Juan B. Rael Collection
"Now
What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music
Festivals, 1938-1943
Prosperity
and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy,
1921-1929
Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording
Trip
"Suffering
Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of
Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Washington
as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
William
P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
The
Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The Library's Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access
through group or item records to more than 50% of the Prints
& Photographs Division's holdings, as well as to
some images found in other units of the Library of Congress.
Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital
images--about one million digital images in all.
The catalog contains an extensive collection of digitized
materials documenting the New Deal era, as well as
materials from the Division's FSA-OWI Collection, the WPA
Posters Collection, and Historic American Buildings Survey
(HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER).
(The same images and records are available
through the Library of Congress
American
Memory site). See New Deal Materials
in the Collections of the Prints & Photographs Division for
further information.
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