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Wing Eight: Hall of Zeitgeist
The 1930's
"New Deal"
Roosevelt************
Always the heart and soul of our country will be the heart and soul of the common man.
-- Franklin Roosevelt, campaign address, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 1940
"The slogan of the Civilian Conservation Corps is 'We can take it!' Building strong bodies is a major CCC objective. More than half the enrollees who entered CCC the last year were seventeen years of age. Work, calisthenics, marching drill, good food, and medical care feature the CCC health program."
By Wilfred J. Mead, Civilian Conservation Corps
Untitled - Winter scene
Ceil Rosenberg
"Food for New York City"
Sol Libsohn
Myra Kinch and Clay Dalton in the Los Angeles production of American Exodus
"Walkin' Boss"
As sung by Tricky Salmon, Johnny Smith, and Alexander Williams
Recorded by Herbert Halpert, Joint Committee on Folk Art, WPA, ca. 1940
Pablo Picasso
Guernica, 1937
Swing Era
Jesse Owens 4 Olympic medals
1936
American Gothic
Grant Wood
Bella Donaa Poppy Red Canna
Georgia O'keeffe
Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway
Pluto Discovered 1930
Hoover Dam
WWII 1939
blitzkrieg
