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Mississippi Delta Children | Library of Congress title: Mississippi Delta Negro Children July, 1936 Labels: Great Depression, Black History, Children, Boys, Girls
During most of the 1930s, African Americans found it all but impossible to find jobs of any kind in agriculture or industry. The father of this impoverished family, photographed in 1937 by Lewis Hine, was a miner who lost his job in the Scott’s Run area of West Virginia. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Watch Jazz | A Film by Ken Burns | PBS | Ken Burns
Ken Burns follows the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to Chicago's south side, the speakeasies of Kansas city and to Times Square. Full film now streaming.
115 Jay Street Brooklyn New York, 1936 Portraits Cocteau’s Hands, Paris, 1927 John V. Lacey, “Birdsmith”, New York, 1948 Solita Solano, Paris, 1926 Cocteau in Bed with Mask, Paris, 1927 Cocteau with Gun, Paris, 1926 New York Bowery Bum, New York, c. 1932 Fifth Avenue Coach Company, New York, 1932…
