Boys competing to scale a tall wooden post (10/3/30, Helena, U.S.A.) and girls performing gymnastics (7/13/31, New York) are spotlighted in this video clip.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

How the Household Finance Corporation helps working families with installment loans during the Depression.

Following World War I, economic uncertainty and widespread fluctuation in the value of world currencies led to a sustained worldwide economic downturn known as the Great Depression. In 1933, delegates from 66 countries gathered in England for the London Economic Conference in hopes of stabilizing the world economy. This conference ended with no clear resolution, and many nations continued to suffer from economic failures until the start of World War...

A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

This video clip contains footage of games on a cruise ship (4/17/24, Baltic Sea) and lifeguards (4/4/38, Los Angeles).

"Turning Things Around, the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"--

In the 1930s, Mohandas, often called Mahatma, Gandhi became the leader of the resistance movement against British rule in India. He championed the use of nonviolence and civil disobedience, such as the collection of salt from the sea in defiance of British laws. In addition to protesting against British occupation, he also worked to end the harsh realities of India's rigid caste system. Copyright The WPA Film Library.