Box 2
Container
Contains 106 Results:
Streets, grading and widening #7. Arianna St. Grading. [Men working ground, several with wheelbarrows. Houses in the near background]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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 #8. Grading at Fuller Ave. and Coldbrook St. [Cutting down street grading. Men mostly working the lower ground, some with wheelbarrows. Some men on the rise at right. Houses visible.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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 #9. Grading of Eastern Ave. at Maybelle St. 11-21-31. Shows a long dirt road rough cut across the image up the hill into the horizon. Utility poles, a few buildings just visible on the hill at left. Men with wheelbarrows dumping soil down graded rise.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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 #10. Grading of Eastern Ave. at Maybelle Sts. 11-21-31. [View from the hill top down in opposite direction of #9 above. Men working in foreground, in 2 trenches, with some on the rise, near the higher graded hill at right. Houses at the base of the road in the background.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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 #11. Innes St. after grading. [Street sign has “Fuller N.W.”. Image has a brick building at left, with dirt road between building and street sign up a rise into the background. Autos at the end of the street in the background.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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