Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1930s

Costello's, 701 Third Avenue, Manhattan (c. 1939-1941) (cropped 3)

Dragon weather vane by Dorothy Hay Jensen 1943.8.8070

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 32

Harlem Art Center: I. 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: II, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: III. Student in sculpture class; 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: V, Students in sculpture class, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center; VI, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: student in metal craft class, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: student in metal craft class, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Harlem Community Art Center: students in sculpture class, 290 Lenox Avenue.

Harlem Community Art Center: student in metal craft class, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, Manhattan.

Houma Street Paving WPA 1939

Hyman Katz, World's Fair, 1939

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 15

Rush and Candle Stand

JosephineStreetDiningRoomNewOrleans1939 7

JosephineStreetDiningRoom NewOrleans1937 3

Printed Textile of George Washington

Yellow Glazed Chintz

Lillian Adelman - Where Do We Go from Here, 1939

Gabriel Weather Vane

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh - Vallejo at Taylor, c. 1939

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh - Vallejo at Taylor, c. 1939 (cropped)

Mathilde De Cordoba - Untitled (Mother and Child), c. 1939

New Orleans City Park 1939 Garden Women and Dog

Palace Theatre New Orleans 1939 detail

Palace Theatre New Orleans 1939

Popps Bandstand from Casino City Park NOLA 1939

Prometheus Ball NOLA 1939

Queens Community Art Center: I. 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

Queens Community Art Center: students in painting class, 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

Queens Community Art Center, 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

Queensboro Community Art Center: VI. Students in sculpture class; 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

Queensboro Commmunity Art Center: students in sculpture class, 36-76 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

Richard Correll – Nocturne.Over Milltown, c. 1939

Richard Correll – Dwellings of the Jobless, 1939

Richard Correll – Log Bucker, c. 1939

Richard Correll - Paul Bunyan Digging Puget Sound, 1939

Rowena Fry - The Parking Lot, circa 1939

Ruth Chaney - Mexican Fruit, 1939

Ruth Chaney - Evening, 1939

Ruth Chaney - Hurricane, c. 1939

Sarah Berman - Fish Market, ca. 1939

Sea Form Marquee (detail) by Sargent Claude Johnson, 1939 - Aquatic Park Bathhouse - San Francisco, CA - DSC04151

Carved Group: "Mennonites Homeward"

Selma Sandler and Lou Block Index of American Design 1939

Selma Sandler Index of American Design 1939

Weather Vane Peacock

Staircase of women’s pavilion in Harlem Hospital, 1939

Stuart Davis, Seine Cart, 1939. Lithograph, WPA

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 24

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 6

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 16

Two children at the Harlem Community Art Center in 1939

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 25

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 17

WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 1 (North Los Angeles District), sheet 7

William Keye and Mary Jane Roberts making straw hats: Riviera Beach, Florida Physical descrip: 1 photoprint; sepia; 14 x 11 in. Series Title: (Print collections) Accompanying note: "7. plaiting the stuff from which his hat is made or laughing with Mary Jane at a visitors remark." Date/place captur

Works Progress Administration maid poster cropped