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roads

Podcast: The Nutmobile

Keep your eyes peeled for a peanut-shaped car that got its start during the Great Depression.
The Podcast Team May 4, 2023
Robert Porterfield Bartering at Barter Theatre
Abingdon, Virginia

Barter Theatre

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.
9904 Colesville Road (Polychrome II)
Silver Spring, Maryland

Polychrome Historic District

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."
food

The Farming Colony That Grew Under the Midnight Sun

How the New Deal seeded giant vegetables in Alaska.
Vivian Wagner January 18, 2022
Spindle Sears House
Centreville, Virginia

Spindle Sears House

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.
Wildflowers
Westchester, Illinois

Wolf Road Prairie

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.
This unusual artifact—now housed at the Columbia University Libraries—is part comic collection, part journal of life in the 1930s.
objects of intrigue

The 36-Pound Comic Scrapbook That Chronicles the Great Depression

How the collection went from a small-town barbershop to a big-time library.
Amadea Tanner August 16, 2021
Kerosene Tin Hut
Morven, Australia

Kerosene Tin Hut

These tin huts were commonplace in Australia during the Great Depression.
Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge
Graford, Texas

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.
Spirit of Communication by Charles Umlauf
Morton, Illinois

'Spirit of Communication'

A Depression-era sculpture by Charles Umlauf survives in a small suburban post office.