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Nara: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
The National Archives and Records Administration, provides this article with historic photographs of people and places in the 1930s.
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Red Allen Jpeg Photo
Read the biography of one of the youngest and most influential people in the jazz business in New Orleans in the 1930's.
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Sam Russell
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Lou Kenton
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Jack Jones
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Alfred Sherman
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Dave Goodman
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor David Marshall
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Bob Doyle
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Sol Frankel
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor George Wheeler
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Frank Mills
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Spanish Civil War Survivor Chris Thorneycroft
"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."
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Unesco: Bahrain: Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal’at Bu Mahir fortress on the southern tip of Muharraq Island, from where boats used to set off for the oyster beds....
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Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
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Unesco: Morocco: Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: A Shared Heritage
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism. The inscribed city encompasses the new town conceived and built under the...
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British Archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892 1968)
Unidentified man; British archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892-1968); and unidentified man. Garrod was the first woman to do research on Paleolithic humans, first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge...
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Frederica Annis Lopez De Leo De Laguna (1906 2004), Kaj Birket Smith (1893 1977)
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) was an anthropologist associated in 1937 with the University of Pennsylvania Museum; she had studied at Columbia during the late 1920s and had done groundbreaking research in...
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Unidentified Man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912 2003)
Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003), Sinclair Oil Company paleontologist, at a U.S. Geological Survey meeting, December 1937. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Michigan, she was first woman employed as a...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence Barbara Seibert (1897 1991)
Biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991) developed the skin test for tuberculosis. After graduating from Goucher College, she worked as a chemist during World War I and then went to Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ruth Murray Underhill (1883 1984)
Ruth Murray Underhill (1883-1984) was among the first female anthropologists hired by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs during the mid-1930s and was greatly involved with Navaho education projects
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe
This photograph of Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe was distributed when she chaired the ladies entertainment committee for the 77th annual convention of American Veterinary Association, in Washington, D.C., October 28, 1940. The wife of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Maud Slye (1879 1954)
Maud Slye (1879-1954) was a pathologist and noted cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. A descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony, Slye had attended the University of Chicago in 1896 with little money but, as her New...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Hinchliffe Stadium
A 1930s-era baseball stadium used to play Negro league baseball during the Jim Crow era.
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