U.S. National Archives photos from the 1930s

Dust Storms; "Dust Storm Near Beaver, Oklahoma"

Dust Storms; Turtle Studio; "Dust Storm in Liberal, Kansas"

Dust Storm in Rolla, Kansas; "Rolla Kansas, May 6-35. Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington DC. Dear Mr. Roosevelt, we are mailing you a picture of the dust storm which came April 14-35. This was a northeast wind and darkness came. When this hit us the sun was shining bright and darkness was coming

Dust Storm; "Dust Storm Approaching Spearman, Texas."

Rolla, Kansas panorama 1935

Depression:Unemployed: photo of Idle man dressed in worn coat lying down on pier:New York City docks: photo by Lewis W. Hine

Act of July 5, 1935, Public Law 74-198, 49 STAT 449, to Diminish the Causes of Labor Disputes Burdening or Obstructing Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to Create a National Labor Relations Board, and for Other Purposes

Indian construction workers at Boulder Dam, Nevada

Indian laborer at Boulder Dam during construction

Indian construction workers at Boulder Dam, Nevada. High scalers.

The Panama Canal SS Jane Christianson in Cut March 1935

Negro unit Macbeth

WPA:Federal Theater Project:figures silhouetted against backdrop of Constitution:untitled

WPA: Information Service: Washington D.C.: a man at work with Jack-hammer

Photograph of a Soup Kitchen during the Depression

WPA: unemployed shown at Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen: Washington, D.C.

Farm Security Administration- Works Progress Administration: Unemployed men eating in Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen in Washington, D.C.

Balboa Commissary - East end of Bakery Counter and East Wing of Vegetable Section

Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. Close-up of coil winder's hands.

Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. Final Inspector - testing radio frequency alignment and making final test of chassis. This takes place in a room entirely surrounded by copper screening in order to protect testing from any "interference." This is the job requiring the highest skill. Even tech

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Man working at machines.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver operating four-loom system. He is shown removing a used-up quill from the shuttle.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Showing the method of sub-dividing a large floor in a big mill so a number of so-called "family-shops" may be installed. Also called "cockroach sop."

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills.

WPA:Federal Theater Project:actors rehearsing scenes from the production"Brother Mose" in Newark, New Jersey

D-3249 5-2-37 Air Terminal Bldg. View N from top of bunkers

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Pursglove Mines Nos. 3 and 4 - This is the largest company on Scott's Run. Scene shows main Scott's Run Highway and atmosphere loaded with coal dust and typical of Scott's Run on "any working day."

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Pursglove Mines Nos. 3 and 4 - This is the largest company of Scott's Run. Scene shows main Scott's Run Highway and atmosphere loaded with coal dust and typical of Scott's Run on "any working day."

German airship "Hindenburg" at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

N3N trainers awaiting engines and other parts at Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hindenburg at lakehurst

Panama Canal, Corozal, Construction Schedule Fiscal Year 1938

Camden, New Jersey - Cabinet making. RCA Victor. Cabinet assembler - assembling waist (front and ends of cabinet). This assembler also puts two key rails into place. He is a skilled cabinet maker. Although the work does not appear to require skill, only a man who has a thorough knowledge of cabinet

Camden, New Jersey - Cabinet making. RCA Victor. Hand sanders - working on cabinets. This work is not called skilled, but it requires a considerable degree of skill: the cabinet could easily be ruined by careless handling. All hand sanders at RCA have had 12 to 15 years' experience.

Camden, New Jersey - Cabinet making. RCA Victor. Close-up of sander.

Camden, New Jersey - Cabinet making. RCA Victor. Cabinet repair man preparing to cut a piece of veneer - to replace a section of veneer damaged during the assembly of the cabinet. This is all hand work and the worker must be a skilled, experiences cabinet-maker.

Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. End of Chassis assembly line - assembling 5-tube radio chassis.

Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. End of feeder line during which transformers, coils, capacities, cables, and tube sockets are put on. After inspection (the man is the inspector for this line), it is ready for wiring.

Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. Coil winder - If a girl has good fingers for this work, she can become expert on this job in three weeks. If she is not naturally deft, she never learns.

Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. L. G. Nestor Co. Tube worker blowing conductivity cell. This highly skilled worker takes glass tubing and blows it into the intricate shapes needed for chemical ware. He uses blue prints in determining the size of the bottles he blows. The glass is heated ready

Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. L.G. Nestor Co. Worker finishing the end of a sulphur determinator. Here the worker is smoothing off the end of the tubing after heating it over the gas flame.

Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock spinning glass wool

Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock Co. The second shot of the process

Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock. Drawing glass from a tube. Each of the protruded knobs in the front of the iron cross bars is a glass tube which extends to the rear of the machine. The gas flames to the right center of the picture heat the glass tubes. The worker is taking

Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock Co. This shows the worker drawing the glass which he has brought from the other side of the room over on a wheel. As the wheel spins the glass is drawn out from the tubing and the product is the glass wool which the worker is holding in his l

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After drying, the skeins are taken from the rack and each skein is put on a swift of the winding machine. This machine winds the yarn from the skein on to bobbins. Nederlands: Overspoelen van strengen op flensspoelen (verouderd).

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Creel showing bobbins with rayon. The operator is shown tying the thread of a full bobbin to the thread of a partially exhausted bobbin, which will be replaced by the former.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After the drying process, the skeins are removed from the whizzer and hung up on racks to dry.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Packages of silk being untied, preparatory to soaking the skeins.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After the skeins have soaked in the solution, they are removed and placed in the whizzer, where they are contrifugally dried.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After drying, the skeins are taken from the rack and each skein is put on a swift of the winding machine. This machine winds the yarn from the skein on to bobbins.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rayon skeins are re-wrapped in cloth after being taken from solution, preparatory to being placed in whizzer to extract water.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rayon skein rapped in cloth, preparatory to emergence in solution.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. A view of part of the Barnett Silk Mill, - it has been cut up into so-called "family-shops", (see other photos). Also shows how the mills in the populated part of the city are surrounded by homes, close-up.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. View of mill and houses.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Madison Silk Co. General view of up-to-date large silk plant (not automatic).

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Madison Silk Co. Passaic River and old silk mill section.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Madison Silk Co. Setting harness onto loom.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Madison Silk Co. Setting new warp onto loom.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Silk skeins on winding creels or swifts. The yarn is wound from the skein on to bobbins.