LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Great Depression &amp; New Deal

Great Depression & New Deal

Bound for Glory: America in Color
Library of Congress online exhibition of color photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Administration.
Calisphere: Great Depression
Materials from California institutions.
Cleveland Public Library Art Collection
Includes a significant collection of New Deal art, as well a other Cleveland related material. Available via JSTOR.
Dorothea Lange Photographs
From the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago.
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photographs
United States government project of 1935-1944. Library of Congress collection.
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Over 25,900 images from the New York Public Library.
Federal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939
Collection from the Library of Congress.
Fine Arts Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Among the Free Library's art collection are prints by Rembrandt van Rijn, Abrecht Dürer, Michel Wohlgemut and other Old Masters, as well as fourteen original paintings by N.C. Wyeth. Includes W.P.A. artworks.
Photogrammar
170,000 photographs taken by the U. S. Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information from 1935 to 1945. Most but not necessarily all are in the public domain and freely available.
Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA, 1935-1943
Materials from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
"Several thousand photographs taken in the late 1930s documenting Los Angeles for the federally funded Guide Book series. These images include street scenes, agricultural views, the motion picture industry and architecture." From Los Angeles Public Library.
WPA Posters
Consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. From the Library of Congress.

Wilbur Staats. Wind erosion has desolated this once luxuriant bunch grass country in Idaho. [cropped] 1937. Library of Congress. Public Domain.