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Title: RCA Victor Company President's Reports to the Board (1931-1932)
Date(s): 1931-03-05, 1932-10-28
Contributor(s): RCA Manufacturing Company (associated name), Victor Talking Machine Company (associated name), RCA-Victor Company (originator)
Collection ID: Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division records (Accession 2658)
Hagley ID: LMSS_2658_Box10_V01
Collection: Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor Division records

Title: Victor Talking Machine Company, Executive Committee minutes (1927-1929)
Date(s): 19127-03-11, 1929-04-12
Contributor(s): RCA-Victor Company (associated name), RCA Manufacturing Company (associated name), Victor Talking Machine Company (originator)
Collection ID: Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division records (Accession 2658)
Hagley ID: LMSS_2658_Box07_Vunk
Collection: Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor Division records

Title: June Croll at Jobless March
Date(s): 1931-07-07
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: This photograph shows June Croll, a representative of the Communist-affiliated National Textile Workers Union, speaking at a Jobless March that occurred in New York City on July 7, 1931. The march, organized by members of the American Workers' Communist Party and the Unemployment Council of Greater New York, as well as other representatives of the popular front coalition, were calling for the city to do more to address unemployment during the Great Depression.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20110425_424
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Business Mind and the Great Depression: A Case Study of Several Members of the du Pont Family to the New Deal
Date(s): 1971
Contributor(s): Lopata, Roy H. (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_050
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Crisis and Consequence
Date(s): 2010
Creator: Hagley Museum and Library
Description: Conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
Collection ID: Hagley Publications Archive
Hagley ID: 2010_center_crisisconf_comb
Collection: Hagley Museum and Library publications archive

Title: Crowd across the street from New York Stock Exchange at start of the Great Depression
Date(s): 1929-10-24
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (collector), Associated Press (photographer), New York Stock Exchange (depicted)
Description: Text on back: "Throngs herded in front of the sub-treasury building across the street from the New York stock exchange during the worst crash in the history of Wall Street. Extra details of police were called out to keep crowd, many of whom faced ruin, in check."
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1993.230)
Hagley ID: PC20100728_201
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Readjustments Required for Recovery
Date(s): 1937
Contributor(s): Stewart, Maxwell S. (Maxwell Slutz), 1900-1990 (author), Brookings Institution (associated name)
Collection ID: Trade catalogs and pamphlets (PAM)
Hagley ID: PAM_011_08044773
Collection: Public Affairs Committee pamphlets

Title: Statement by Robert M. Harriss of New York Before the Ways and Means Committee Hearing, April 14, 1932, in Connection with the Bonus Bill
Date(s): 1932-04-14
Contributor(s): Harriss, Robert Mallory, 1890-1971 (author), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Transcript of testimony before Congressional committee regarding a bill to issue a bonus for World War I servicemen, scheduled to be paid in 1945, in response to the Great Depression. Harriss was a cotton broker, an investor, and a prominent patron of conservative causes.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100716_037
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Chrysler Chronicles, Segment 3 of 8
Date(s): 1996
Creator: Chrysler Corporation
Contributor(s): National Automobile Dealers Association (compiler)
Description: Depicts history of automobiles and Chrysler. Segment 03 covers Chrysler during the Great Depression, including the introduction of the Chrysler Plymouth, failure of the Chrysler Airflow, and death of Walter Chrysler. Footage compiled for NADA's documentary '100 Years of America's Auto Dealerships : The First Century' (2006)
Collection ID: National Automobile Dealers Association audiovisual materials and publications (Accession 2014.274)
Hagley ID: vid_NADA_B02_ID46_03
Collection: National Automobile Dealers Association

Title: The Forgotten Tenth, An Analysis of Unemployment among Negroes in the United States and its Social Costs : 1932-1933
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator)
Collection ID: Pamphlets
Hagley ID: PAM_The_Forgotten_Tenth
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / Any New Deal can be the Same Old Deal
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2016.0162
Hagley ID: PAM_2016_0162
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Migrant family during Great Depression
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (collector), Ewing Galloway (Agency) (photographer)
Description: Text on back: "'Okies' are always on the move - types that go to California to better their life of farm tenancy are all called Okies, whether they are from Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado. Some are going, some are returning. Okies can be seen on the roads across the desert any time. There are said to be around 200,000 migrants in California. Forty-three percent of these are said to be Oklahomans from the dust bowl counties. That's why all migrants are called Okies. John Steinbeck's...
Show moreText on back: "'Okies' are always on the move - types that go to California to better their life of farm tenancy are all called Okies, whether they are from Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado. Some are going, some are returning. Okies can be seen on the roads across the desert any time. There are said to be around 200,000 migrants in California. Forty-three percent of these are said to be Oklahomans from the dust bowl counties. That's why all migrants are called Okies. John Steinbeck's novel, Grapes of Wrath, turned the nation's attention to these migrants, and since the appearance of the book other writers have attempted to disprove Steinbeck's charges."
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Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1993.230)
Hagley ID: PC20100728_214
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Walls family shanty home
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_0841
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: Unemployment insurance underwriting portrait
Date(s): 1931
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Description: Typed on verso: 'indentified by W.F. Raskob - 9/22/60. Left to right: Elwood Bartram, Secretary to the mayor. Dr. George W. K. Forrest, Mayor of Wilmington. Frank McHugh'
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_3441
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: Walls family, mother with children, in front of shanty home
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_0842
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: Security, National Conference on Economic Security
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 (author), Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 (author), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Booklet containing speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Harry L. Hopkins, Dr. Frank P. Graham, Daniel C. Rope, and Harold B. Butler.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100809_034
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Memorandum on the relationship between unemployment and business depressions and monetary and credit policies. Prepared at the request of Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of the State of New York
Date(s): 1931
Contributor(s): Lombard, Norman (author), Stable Money Association (other)
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: 08164364_0473_File2161_Memorandum
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: What the election means for American industry : address at the semi-annual meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): Jordan, Virgil, 1892-1965 (author), National Industrial Conference Board (associated name)
Hagley ID: PAM_08038649
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: The depression : its causes and the way out, April 12, 1932
Date(s): 1932
Contributor(s): Chadbourne, Thomas L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1871-1938 (author)
Collection ID: PAM
Hagley ID: PAM_08023874
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Interim report and immediate recommendations of the Committee for the Nation. Released in February to National Advisory Committee of the Committee for the Nation and to the Banking and Finance Committee of the United States Senate, some members of Congress, advisers and members of the administration and to the executive heads of the administration and to the executive heads of one hundred large corporations
Date(s): 1933
Creator: Committee for the Nation
Collection ID: PAM (C)
Hagley ID: 08079014_interim_committee_nation
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets