Two children in the midst of a financial crisis. This photo shows the devastating affects the Depression had upon families. You are able to see the situation and environ these children must grow up in. It is filled with political and economic uncertainty. Their lives will forever reflect their tough and uncertain upbringing. https://ccj83.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/photo-essay-hoover-the-great-depression/hooverville-3/
"There was no order in the camp; little gray tents, shacks, cars were scattered about at random. The first house was nondescript. The south wall was made of three sheets of rusty corrugated iron, the east wall a square of moldy carpet tacked between two boards, the north wall a strip of roofing paper and a strip of tattered canvas, and the west wall six pieces of gunny stacking. Over the square frame, on untrimmed willow limbs, grass had been piled, not thatched, but heaped in a low mound." (328)
This quote was taken from "The Grapes of Wrath" in which the Joad family has come to reside in a Hooverville. They are not expecting the horrig conditions of the camp, and are caught off guard by the situation that has formed in California. This is from "The Grapes of Wrath." This quote is truly important for it shows the terrible conditions in California, and how many families were caught off guard by the lack of prosperity and opportunity. The Hoovervilles was an attempt at a society by the people who were rejected by society. It was all they had.
This quote was taken from "The Grapes of Wrath" in which the Joad family has come to reside in a Hooverville. They are not expecting the horrig conditions of the camp, and are caught off guard by the situation that has formed in California. This is from "The Grapes of Wrath." This quote is truly important for it shows the terrible conditions in California, and how many families were caught off guard by the lack of prosperity and opportunity. The Hoovervilles was an attempt at a society by the people who were rejected by society. It was all they had.
These political cartoons are placing the blame of the great depression on President Herbert Hoover. The cartoon on the left shows two men reading a newspaper article on one of Hoover's speeches. It is making fun of the fact that the president doesn't acknowledge that there are slums that are being named after him and he is doing nothing too help.
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The political cartoon on the right is making fun of Hoover's believe that the great depression's end was right around the corner and prosperity would come to everyone. These political cartoons were very powerful during the time and were heavily discussed, The give a glimpse into the past life.
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http://pixgood.com/herbert-hoover-political-cartoon.html
http://www.nisd.net/technology/edtech/TechIntegration/Taft/garcia2.html
https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2008/09/24/pages/2698/index.xml?page=8&
Video pertaining to Hooverville life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cNfvsOqNk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISniZI_H7mE
These songs are from the time of the setting, and also form the present. They accurately portray what life was like back then. They have a large impact, and help people to visualize what life was like. Music, such as this, was very key to the time for it was a method of transporting information.
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This is a primary source from someone who lived in one of Seattle's Hooverville's. In this "letter" he writes about his experiences staying in a hooverville. This source is very important for it is a first hand account of like in the hooverville's. It is accurate and can be read here:
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Farthest on the left is a water color painting of the largest hooverville in the U.S. It is located in St.Louis, Missouri. This particular Hooverville was in use from 1930 - 1936. It had its own mayor and church. Most hoovervilles were very disorganized, filthy, and filled with sickness.
http://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville_seattle_tarpaper_carthage.shtml |
These depiction play a key role in the visual expression of what life was like in the Hoovervilles. They provide an image that can aid the learner in understanding what life was truly like in the hoovervilles.
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Hoovervilles play a major role in The Grapes of Wrath. The Joad family has to stay at one of the hoovervilles, and realizes that California is not everything they imagined. Unlike the hooverville depicted on the left, the one that the Joad family stayed out was unorganized and filled with police trying to kick them out for any reason. Tom Joad is told to act "dumb" at the hooverville to keep him self out of trouble. These make shift "homes" were one of the many things blamed on President Hoover.
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Above is a weather report from the Mid West region. You can see the differences in rainfall from the beginning of the great depression to the end. The Dust Bowl occurred due to high winds, drought and failure to plow the land correctly. This forced many landowners homes to be foreclosed upon and make their way out West, where many ended up in Hoovervilles. This graph is significant fore it shows what led to the Great Depression, and how the drought became a commanding role in America's decline during the time. It helps one to understand the Okie's struggles and predicaments.
A slideshow of various Hoovervilles/ Hooverville life.
These are various pictures of Hoovervilles throughout the country. They truly portray the dismal living conditions during the time. They show how families managed to survive with anything they could possible get their hands on. These pictures are of great importance for they SHOW the viewer life. They allow one to connect with the families and their situations. These are links to the various photos.
https://urbanobservatory.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/new-york-new-york-historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/ https://nycawalkinthepark.wordpress.com/ http://www.apimages.com/Collection/Landing/The-Great-Depression/5fdd5cf2640d4739aaa0080effe76b41 https://godfreyattrinity.wordpress.com/category/images/ https://storify.com/mhal2310/effect-of-great-depression-on-people https://lockerdome.com/6417475776553025/7162636999733780 http://pixgood.com/hooverville-people.html http://hoovervillet.weebly.com/other-hoovervilles.html http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/cp_slideshow_web.pdf https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/hoovervilles-in-new-york-city/ http://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville.shtml http://www.legendsofamerica.com/20th-hoovervilles2.html
A Poem that displays Hooverville life from the outside.
Hooverville By: David Wagoner
I wasn’t supposed to go where the bums lived,
But I could see their houses made out of crates
And tin cans hammered flat, out of tar paper
And cardboard boxes, the doorways curtained with rags.
I watched them wash their clothes and their underwear
And their bodies
in cold Lake Michigan for a mile
Between us and South Chicago. Freight engineers
Would whistle and wave at me, but not at them.
My mother fed some almost every morning,
So I knew they’d ridden boxcars from somewhere else
And were going somewhere else sooner or later
But meanwhile had to stay here and be hungry.
I sneaked out of my bed and bedroom window
Some nights and saw their fires flicker to life
Along the tracks and burn from yellow to red
While a kind of hoedown with banjos and guitars
Was craking and plunking almost as faint and far
And near as the mosquitoes and hoptoads
And crickets. I could hear them singing. Their shadows
Danced in firelight. Nobody danced in our yard
Or in our neighbors’ yards. Our short front lawns
Ended in cindery ditches and roadbeds
Where cattails puffed their seeds over the crossties,
Where tumbleweeds, on the loose, were ready to roll
This poem is intriguing for it shows Hooverville life from an outsider's standpoint. It artistically describes the time with beautiful verses of poetry. It is a work of art that focuses on a sector of society that the author is curious about. This poem in important for it shows Hooverville life from a new standpoint. It shows the image of Hoovervilles from a second point
https://taliawaite.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/welcome-to-hooverville/
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