1930s America
1930s America
Various shots of life in the United States during the 1930's highlighting politics, prohibition, economics and labor.
1930s America
GV FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) giving his 1933 inauguration speech. GV inside Congress. Bank Holiday: woman leaving a grocery store with her items, clerk helps her out with a smile, sign in store window reads "Never Mind the Holiday, We Will Trust You". CU sign reading: "You don't need Money, What Have You Got? We will take anything". MS man approaching shop with a guitar case. MS man showing his guitar to shop keeper hoping to trade for groceries. Prohibition Montage: CU alcoholic beverage being poured into glass. CU bottles of uncapped foaming beer moving on assembly line. MS bar keeper sliding beer mugs along the counter. GV men at bar toasting their beer mugs. Political Cartoons focusing on FDR's administrative programs (NRA,TVA, etc). Labor Montage: GVs men and women arriving for shift at a textile factory. MS top of factory smokestack. Interior GV of women at work at the textile mill, looks sweltering in there. MS/GV employees operating automated machinery within the factory. MS men pressing hats. GV men loading cart. MSs women on the assembly line. MS FDR speaking from behind desk. GV Nazi rally with Hitler marching among his followers. MS male member of the Nazi party holding his young child in his arms during a rally/parade. MSs Hitler supporters marching in the Nazi salute.
1930s America
DO NOT SELL: Photographic stills of banner reading: "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday".
1930s America
MS women water skiing behind numbers reading "1937". GV riot in street between workers and police. MS scab leaving factory and walking past line of picketers. MS male striker smoking a cigarette and taunting a huge cop (his head is out of the frame). MS men passing out newspapers. GVs people waiting outside factory.
1930s America
DO NOT SELL: Very brief still photograph of John L. Lewis.