Keywords: Great Depression
Item 103297
National Youth Administration cabin, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 103298
The National Youth Administration hangar with planes, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
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Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
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Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Great Depression
The Great Depression Text and Audio files by Georges Valley High School 10th Grade History Class. On November 18, 2008, the sophomore social studies…
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building
… The Grant Building was built at the end of the Depression when national chain stores came to Bath. W.T. Grant Co.
