Ottawa Canada

The Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada, with Parliament Hill and Union Station visible in the background. c.1938, photograph by Conrad Poirier, Wikimedia Commons

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

Depression Era

New York - January 1938. "Unemployed Workers."  - Depression Era 

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Store Greeter

April 1938. "Boy on porch of general store. Roseland, Virginia." Medium-format negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration

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Zydeco Players

Zydeco players Louisiana 1938

Source: wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons | Author: Russell Lee (1903-1986) | Library of Congress

Eliot Cricket III

1938 Eliot Cricket III, Samuel Eliot, ASAE, was an automotive experimenter and visionary. The Cricket III incorporated many of his ahead-of-the-time ideas; torsion-bar suspension, stainless-steel body; one-piece frame, rear-mounted engine, aircraft type control column for steering and braking and no-glare, slotted headlights. Among his many patents was an engine which would run on any fuel. In 1933 he built Boston’s first parking garage. This vehicle was a test bed so that the specifications varied widely.

Source: ohtm

Vintage Photo

This picture was taken on the porch of a general store near Jeanerette, Louisiana. It was taken in 1938 by Russell Lee. During the Great Depression, the government wanted to document the suffering going on across the country, and hired a group of photographers to travel the rural areas of the Nation, taking pictures of everyday people. 

History

The Nazi regime exploited the Jewish population economically through an increasingly systematic program of  expropriation. Under pressure, Jewish owners sold their shops, factories, and land to "Aryan" businessmen at prices far below market value. After the Night of Broken Glass [Kristallnacht], the Aryanization of Jewish property entered its final phase. On November 12, 1938, Göring issued the “Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life," according to which Jews were forbidden to own retail stores and workshops and to sell merchandise and services. Jewish businesses were confiscated by the state, closed, or transferred to "non-Jewish" ownership. This photograph shows one such “Aryanized” business, a rubber goods store in Frankfurt am Main. As the sign indicates, the store was formerly called “Gummi Weil” (or “Weil Rubber Goods”), but now went by Stamm & Bassermann, presumably the names of its new “Aryan” owners.        

Source: ghi-dc

Vintage Photo

Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from T.B., living in an old company store in the abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia. 1938

Source: drx | Marion Post Walcott, FSA

Vintage Photo

Boarded up homes in an abandoned mining town owned and closed by Ford after a unionization attempt. Twin Branch, West Virginia, 1938,  Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.

Source: drx 

Vintage Photo

Newsstand, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938

Source: drx | Russell Lee, FSA

Vintage Fashion

Mainbocher evening dress from 1938

Gown of Silk Tulle, 1938, Mainbocher 

Source: dressesofdrama | The Victoria & Albert Museum | dailyproteinlifestyle

Vintage Photos

The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012). Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas. To date it remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.

Source: randomnoodling | google

Chief Thundercloud

Chief Thundercloud, (born Victor Daniels, April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955) was an American character actor in westerns. Information about Thundercloud is vague. Most biographies state that he was a full blooded Cherokee (or Muskogee). The pressbook for The Lone Ranger Rides Again announced his parents as "Dark Cloud and Morning Star, artistocrats of the Muskogee tribe" but his death certificate lists his father as "Joseph Mahawa." He had the title role in Geronimo (1939) and played Tonto in both Republic Lone Ranger serials, The Lone Ranger (1938) and The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939).

Source: wikipedia

Vintage Film

Incredibly rare image of Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) at the top of the Empire State Building in King Kong (1933). vintage
Note this image comes from an original 1938 re-release publicity still for the movie.

Source: cinemaisdope | IMDb Profile

Image Source: Official still that was used in the 1938 USA re-release of the film.

Vintage Cartoon

The Captain and The Kids Cartoon 1938-1939 - directed by William Hanna, Bob Allen, and Friz Freleng
This animated version of  Rudolph Dirks’ comic strip The Captain and the Kids, a parallel version of his strip The Katzenjammer Kids, was a 15-episode series produced by MGM. (vintage)

Source: titleart | rauchbrothers.com | wikipedia