Box 1
Container
Contains 112 Results:
#11. Men in jackets standing working at counters and tables. Man in suit lower right, near a table, with barrels underneath.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.2
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
Food Supplies #9. Giving out bread and milk at no. 5 Engine House. “Leonard and Monroe”, N.W. [Shows an officer handing out milk to children and men standing in a line. The officer is in front of a cabinet (refrigerator?) which has unidentified supplies at the top, and milk bottles showing at the bottom. The boy at the front of the line stands next to a wagon with another child seated there.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.3
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
Food Supplies #10. (Milk Service). William Slater, Engine House No. 10. Images shows 5 children in line. The officer is handing a boy a bottle of milk with his left hand and has another package in his right hand. Signed above the refrigerator(?) read [1] No Milk after ? M. 2) No Milk with out bottles. The milk crates seen in the image read “Modern Milk Co.”.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.3
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
Food Supplies #12. Duplicate of #10 above.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.3
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
Items Nos. 10 and 12 may have previously been identified as Engineer House #5,
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.3
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
Repair Dept. #1. Hat Cleaning Dept. Social Center. [Shows a man ironing, with hat around on his counter, and on a shelf. A pot in on a hot plate in the foreground.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.4
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
Repair Dept. #2. Sewing Room Bond Ave. Social Welfare. [Shows two women seated at treadle sewing machines in the foreground, with tables of stuff in the background.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.4
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
#13. North Division Ave., Widening. [The first cross street is probably Lyon, running along the back of the old Post Office building, later the Art Museum]. The spire for St. Mark’s is just visible above the top of the building with the “Parking” sign at lower level”.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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
#18. #900 N. Ionia Ave., Wrecking for N. Division Ave. opening. [Shows a stone wall alone a side walk, with demolition going on at the properties above the stone walls.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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
#19. #930 N. Ionia Ave., Wrecking for N. Division Ave. opening. [Shows houses in demolition with buildings, behind the trees, in the background
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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