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Box 1

 Container

Contains 112 Results:

1. 11-18-31 [Men working the ground, with wheelbarrows in foreground]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

2. 6-23-31. Belknap Memorial Park [View of men working at the base of the hill. Men in foreground left digging in a trench.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

3. Scrip Labor soding [putting down sod] at Belknap Park

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

1. Spreading Fertilizer at Reservoir Hill [Smoke stacks in the background, men working in the rubble at right, small hills of other matter near the center]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

2. Reservoir Hill, 1931. [Plymouth 1932, Floating Power billboard lower right.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

3. 7-21-31 [A line of men standing in the background at the base of the hill. Men moving with full wheelbarrows to dump the dirt down into a meadow area.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1931

Food Supplies #6

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

City Canning Operations. Women seated at a table that has several large kettles on it. Woman standing at the back, with crates of produce behind them.

Dates: 1930-1932

Food Supplies #13

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

54 Division So. Canning Peaches and Tomato Juice. Women in foreground, woman and men in background. Working at tables, with bottled stock on shelves and tables

Dates: 1930-1932

#1. Shot from the interior office, shows a staff on the inside, interacting with a group of men on the other. A desk near the center with a phone, man seated talking to another man standing.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

#2. Group of men in hats and coats crowded into a basement(?) space. Man at window lower right, with boy in lower right corner.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932