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The best sources for locating information on The Great Depression are:

• Grolier
  • America the Beautiful
    • Timelines

• ABC-CLIO
  • American History
    • Topic Exploration OR
    • Advanced Search

• AP Images
  • You can search for a particular time period, or decade
    (example: from 1930 to 1940)

• Proquest Historical Newspapers
  • Timeline Search

EBooks (Electronic books)
In school, use library catalog to locate and use these titles. At home, access is in the Gale database:

• Gale
  • Virtual Reference Library
    • Science

Sample Titles:

• American Decades
• American Decades: Primary Sources
• American History through Literature Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
• Fashion, Costume and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations and Footwear through the Ages
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• The Sixties in American Reference Library
• UXL American Decades
• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society

Great Depression Websites:

• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
• Vintage Ads
• Drugstore ads of the 1930's
• Advertising Archives of the 1930's
• Animation Archives of the 1930's
• Found in Mom's Basement
• PBS
• Library of Congress Learning Page
• American Memory of the LOC
• Prints and Photographs online at LOC
• Great Depression
• Photographs from About.com
• Library of Economics
• Farming in the 1930's
• Unemployment during the Depression
• Digital History
• Herbert Hoover Library
• 1930's
• Kingwood College
• The People's History

Other Recommended Websites:

• InfoPlease Year by Year 1900-2007
• InfoPlease World History of the 20th Century
• Food Timeline