Viewing Guide: Images of the Great Depression Name:

1. Describe the pictures labeled "Bread Lines."

2. How many people are in this picture of a farm family?

3. What do you find most striking about the pictures of the Dust Storm?

4. What is the mood of the photos labeled "General Conditions"?

5. What is going on in the slide labeled "Run on the Banks"?

6. Describe the photograph "Migrant Worker" by Dorothea Lange.

7. Describe what is going on in the picture labeled "CCC Camp."

8. Give three adjectives that describe the CCC workers in this photograph.

9. Name one project that CCC workers are pictured doing.

10. What is the mood of the photograph labeled "CCC Wash Room"?

11. Name two projects of the PW A.

12. What are the goals of the NIRA? What is the NRA's symbol?

13. What is the TVA supposed to do?

14. Name five states affected directly by the TV A.

15. Describe the scene in the photograph labeled "Community Well in the Tennessee River Valley.”

16. Describe the photograph labeled "Christmas Dinner."

17. Identify four items sold through the Surplus Commodities Program.

18. What do the posters on the wall say?

19. What is included in a school lunch during this time period?

20. What were the goals of the WP A?

21. Describe one project of the WPA.

22. Identify one job created by the NY A.

23. Describe one poster for the SSA.

24. What percentage of American farms had electricity in 1935? 1951?

25. Referring to the pictures for details. describe one chance in farm life due to electricity,

Select two images from the presentation. Explain how these images and the programs that they represent relate to FDR’s New Deal. For instance, do they convey the need for a
particular New Deal program? Do they convey a sense of hope for which a New Deal agency is responsible? Do they make a particular New Deal program seem frivolous or
unnecessary?