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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

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Photogrammar

Between 1935 and 1945 the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) sponsored the creation of approximately 170,000 photographs, including those of such famed artists as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. This site, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by Yale University, allows readers to organize, search, and visualize the...

https://dsl.richmond.edu/
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

A special presentation from the Library of Congress, Prosperity and Thrift consists of a vast collection of resources about the Calvin Coolidge presidency and the economy of the 1920s, including written materials, photographs, audio files of Calvin Coolidge's speeches, and several volumes of Coolidge's personal papers. The site charts myriad aspects of this time period, offering background,...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html