Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
Depression/New Deal


Digital Collections

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 [online]. [Washington, D.C.] :; Library of Congress, 1998. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html.

Visual Information Access (VIA) [online]. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Harvard University Library, 1999- . Available from: http://via.harvard.edu:748/html/VIA.html. VIA is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard's museums and libraries. A seach for Ben Shahn and Tennessee retrieves over 100 photographs from the 1930s.


Guides to Archival Collections



Historic Sites & Museums

West, Carroll Van. Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2001. 281p.
West examines over 250 historic sites created from 1933 to 1942, including courthouses, museums, parks, and dams.


Microform Collections

Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 2: Women in National Politics. Part A: Democrats. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1992- .
Part of this collection documents Sue Shelton White's advocacy of woman's suffrage and her career as a New Deal administrator.


Selected Books

Terrill, Tom E., and Jerrold Hirsch, eds. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.



Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources