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WPA Posters from the Library of Congress

• March 6, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in 30s, 40s, Advertising, Ephemera, Fun, Great Depression, History, Illustration
Tags: Works Progress Administration, WPA

Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho

• March 3, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 30s, Blues, Dance, Film, Fun, Great Depression, Music, Video
Tags: Cab Calloway

Anniversary of the End of Prohibition

• December 8, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in 20s, 30s, Fun, Great Depression, History, Politics, Video

Jimmie Rodgers: Waiting for a Train

• November 20, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in 30s, Blues, Country music, Great Depression, Music, Video, Yodeling
Tags: Jimmie Rodgers

Busby Berkeley: Don’t Say Goodnight

• October 22, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 30s, Dance, Fun, Great Depression, Music, Musicals, Video, Weirdness
Tags: Busby Berkeley

Banned Books Week

• September 30, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in 30s, Children's Books, Great Depression, History, Literature, Politics
Tags: banned books

Gustave Baumann’s Woodblock Prints

• August 18, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in Art, Great Depression
Tags: Works Progress Administration, WPA

Father Coughlin

• July 22, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in 30s, 40s, Ephemera, Great Depression, History, Magazines, Politics

1934 Vanity Fair: Has Hitler a Mother Complex?

• May 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 30s, Advertising, Ephemera, Great Depression, History, Magazines, Politics

Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms

• November 23, 2007 • 7 Comments

Posted in 40s, Art, Great Depression, Illustration, Politics
Tags: 40s, Art, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, Great Depression, History, Holiday, Illustration, Magazines, Norman Rockwell, Politics, Thanksgiving

Ry Cooder sings Woody Guthrie’s Vigilante Man

• July 25, 2007 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 40s, Great Depression, History, Music, Politics, Songs about America, Video
Tags: 30s, Blues, Country music, Folk music, Great Depression, History, Music, Politics, Songs about America, Video, Woody Guthrie

Forgotten Man

• May 30, 2007 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 30s, Antiwar songs, Blues, Dance, Film, Great Depression, History, Music, Musicals, Songs about America, Video
Tags: 30s, Audio, Blues, Busby Berkeley, Film, Great Depression, History, Music, Musicals, Politics, Songs about America, Video, War

Minnie the Moocher

• February 7, 2007 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 30s, Animation, Dance, Film, Fun, Great Depression, Music, Video, Weirdness
Tags: 30s, Animation, Cab Calloway, Film, Fun, Great Depression, Music, Video

Betty Boop for President

• January 9, 2007 • 2 Comments

Posted in 30s, Animation, Film, Great Depression, Politics, Video, Weirdness
Tags: 30s, Animation, Cab Calloway, Film, Fun, Great Depression, Spokane, Video