Box 2
Container
Contains 106 Results:
6-20-31. Unidentified image of men standing in line to read a hut, next to a construction site. Bissell factory in the background. Brick street with tracks in the foreground.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
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
Streets, grading and widening #2. Laying 2 (or 12) miles of 24” water main on Hall Street. 7-18-31. [Possibly Hall at Jefferson St. School. Bolder on corner has written information. Men working on trench next to large brick building [Jefferson School?] Houses at right. A trolley is visible at the far end of the street, vehicles on the brick street.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
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
Streets, grading and widening #12. First St. Extension. Men working the rough ground on a hill between two buildings. A garage is in the background at left, and the steeple of a church is in the background right.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
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
Streets, grading and widening #20. Front Ave. 30” Main at 3rd St. 6-1-31. Near view of men working in a trench lined with wood supports. A heavy pipe hangs from a wench above the trench, with workmen, above and below ground, some looking at the camera. A sign for “Perkins(?) Machine Repair” hangs on the building at left. View down the city street in the background.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
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
Streets, grading and widening, water mains. #33. Laying watermain in Grandville Ave. Men working above and below a trench between the street and sidewalk. An unidentified restaurant is near by. Ferguson Supply Co. sign on the side of a building in the background right. The Pantlind can be identified from the barely visible roof siding and building structure in the right background.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
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
Streets #34. Installing water main in Preston Avenue. 8-27-31. [Men working at right, in and above a trench along a direct street. 3 men standing in the street. Truck at center left has “Grand Union Company”.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
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
Salvage operations #3. Reclaiming brick from auditorium site. 6-22-31. [Image shows a field full of bricks piled up, with men working from the edge. A dump truck center right ads to the pile. A building is in the background at right.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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
Salvage operations #5. Salvaging old pipe taken from buildings raised on new auditorium site. 7-20-31. [108-200 Market S.W.] Two African American men lifting a pipe from the pile. Men watching in the background. A Federal Motor Trucks building and other buildings in the background.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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
Salvage operations #6. Loading salvaged lumber at auditorium site. 7-18-31. [Men standing on back of 2 short flatbed trucks, loading lumber. Two men on top of lumber pile. Part of a large building with smoke stacks at right.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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
G.R.Herald, June 5, 1931. [[Brick salvaging at the auditorium site(?), a group of men at a roof line, with a view to Bissell's, and the Bissell tower in the background. Note on back gives time as 7 am.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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