University of Virginia collection of film, print, visual and broadcast media from the 1930s. Experience the decade through the media that was consumed at the time. Use the toolbar across the top of the page to move between the different sections of the page.
"This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940."