Box 2
Container
Contains 106 Results:
Streets, grading and widening #4. Valley Ave. and Webster Sts., before making cut. [Rough ground in foreground with fall trees on hill in background. Autos at base of hill.
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 #6. Valley Ave. and Webster St. grading. [Men working ground, most on lowers ground, but some on the hill in the background. Hill has been cleared of most trees, as compared with #4 image.
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 #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 #14. Grading of Denherder Ave. 7-23-31. [Men at the top of a graded rise across the center of the image (angled). Houses in the background. Rough ground at lower right.
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 #15. 6-23-31. [Aberdeen St. grading] Several men in a row at left and crossing the center with wheelbarrows. Sidewalk and building barely visible at left. Houses at right. Street is dirt.
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 #16. Sylvan Ave., Grading job. 1-26-32. [Men working in the foreground between hilly ground (higher rises) on either side. Vista into the background, with houses and factory in the far horizon.
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