Sentences with phrase «farm during the depression»

She had no missing sisters and her parents lived to ripe old age, but there is something about that era that keeps many people from discussing - or even remembering - it; whether the reasons be deep family secrets or the hardship of growing up on a farm during the depression.

Mom d grew up on a farm during the depression and was a young farm wife during WWII.

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Stryker was known for his time with the Farm Security Administration, where he launched the photo documentary program during the Great Depression.

It was actually his great - grandmother Carrie Hawkins who had started the business as a farm stand in rural Syracuse to make ends meet during the depression.

Similar ideas were behind the creation of many rural cooperatives in the United States during the Great Depression for everything from electrical and telephone services, to marketing crops, to purchasing farm supplies.

Detailing the lives of Mexican farm workers during the Great Depression, this indispensable instructional guide provides engaging lessons that will challenge students as they examine the award - winning YA novel, Esperanza Rising.

This beautifully written memoir takes place on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression.

Born in 1904, Clyfford Still's early work in the 1930s reflected his environment: rugged farm hands and laborers toiling away during the Great Depression.

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange was working for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished faDuring the 1930s, Dorothea Lange was working for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished faduring the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished farmers.

on view from May 29 - September 30, 2015, charts the artist's beginnings in a small Mississippi farming town during the Great Depression to his journey to New York's avant - garde art scene and his career as a influential teacher at Yale Universiy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The show included one of her most acclaimed series from 1981 — a group of twenty - two photographs of reproductions of Walker Evans's photographs from his Farm Security Administration - commissioned project to document the rural South during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Around the same time, photography created under the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl brought images of rural poverty to...

Likewise, during the Great Depression, food was not in short supply and tons of farm products were destroyed to support crop prices.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.