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Destitute Pea Pickers in California

[Detail] Destitute Pea Pickers in California

Specific artifacts (images, manuscripts, maps, sound files) with analysis tools help students think like historians about a particular historical event or phenomenon.

Depression era family

Dust Bowl Migration

Photographs, recorded music, and song lyrics document the daily ordeals of rural migrant families from the Great Plains during a decade marked by both the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.

WPA poster 'Workers Service Program'

The New Deal

Photographs, posters, oral histories, and music recount how Federal programs sought to end the Great Depression.