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- Collection: The Great Depression and World War II
Ernest Dudley Chase "Moore-McCormack Lines Pictorial Map of South America," 1942
This Document Bank of Virginia resource has two entries; click the titles below to read more.Prejudice Behind the BeautyThis Document Bank of Virginia entry has been contributed by University of Richmond student Meghann Lewis (LAIS 309- Spanish…
Parade Celebrating the Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in Hampton Roads, 1944
This photograph depicts sections of the 3166th Quartermaster Service Company, Color Guard, and 3167th Quartermaster Service Company of Camp Hill as they marched down Jefferson Avenue in Newport News. They, along with Shipyard workers' floats, Camp…
1937 Guide Map of Shenandoah National Park, Map, 1937
This guide map shows some of the first park boundaries, ranger stations, trails and more of the Shenandoah National Park in 1937. In 1924 the federal government began looking for land in the southern Appalachian Mountains to create a large national…
Opening of the Skyline Drive, Photograph, 1934
This photograph depicts the opening of the Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in 1934. The Skyline Drive was created to be a scenic driving road along side of the mountains and to be a part of the Shenandoah National Park. The…
Don't Go Back and Backward with Republicans, Broadside, 1936
The 1936 election came on the heels of FDR's second New Deal. This second round of programs included the Social Security Act and the Works Progress Administration. The Democratic Congress also passed tax revision, raising tax rates for those with…
The Maymont House, Photograph, circa 1939
James H. Dooley was a Virginia politician and businessman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After the Civil War, he amassed afortune by expanding railroad services. In 1869, he married Sallie May Dooley, a daughter of a prominent family who…
Drawing of Shellfield, Westmoreland Co., Edward A. Darby, 1932-37
In the early- to mid-1930s, the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development’s Division of History and Archaeology received funds from the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Art Project to commission five artists to create…
Pres. Truman presents Congressional Medal of Honor to Cpl. Desmond T. Doss, Photograph, 1945
Lynchburg native Desmond T. Doss (1919-2006) was the first conscientious objector to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. The award was given for his bravery on Okinawa in May 1945. Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist, objected to killing and refused…
John L. Wilkes of Bedford County, Personal War Service Record Photograph, 1944
On June 6, 1944, soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force stormed the beaches of Normandy as part of Operation Overlord, often referred to as D-Day. Approximately 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile…
This is the Enemy (No. 44), War Poster Label sponsored by Artists for Victory, Inc., 1943
Based in New York, N.Y., 1942-1946. Artists for Victory, Inc. was a non-profit organization of more than ten thousand artists formed to assist in the war effort by using their artistic abilities. Their activities included a British-American goodwill…