Childhood and America in the 1930s

"Cutting back" ..."Making do"... "Doubling up"
    Gee's Bend Alabama
    Shoeshine Boy in Connecticut
    Newsie in Pennsylvania
    Migrant mother and children in California

    Migrant Farm Family 
    Sugar beet worker

    Health Care

Transient Youth and America's Youth Problem
    boy hopping freight train
    Scottsboro Boys
    American Youth Congress
    Civilian Conservation Corps
    National Youth Administration  (boys    girls)

Improving and Growing Schools
    Works Progress Administration schools (1, 2)
    WPA lunch program
    Football and high school graduation

The American Childhood Ideal
    Shirley Temple

    Andy Hardy
    The importance of play (erector set)
    The commercialization of childhood  (Famous Funnies) (Charles Atlas)
    Radio

   
The New Deal and America's Children
    homemade swimming pool

    Pool at Greenbelt, Maryland
    New homes in Gee's Bend, Alabama

Adolescent Girls