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President Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is presented and passed in a meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, U.S.
A meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, United States during the Great Depression. Elected officials and dignitaries seated inside the U.S. Capitol House chamber. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is passed, following a four day banking holiday. The bank bill being read. Speaker reading the President's words, "the causes of this failure of our banking system is unnecessary," and, "the government has been compelled to step in for the protection of depositors and the business of the nation." He further says that the first task is to open all sound banks. Immediate changes in banking legislation are made: The Banking Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.
During the Great Depression, people barter their things and gather on streets to trade without money in Washington DC
People exchange products in the United States during the Great Depression, trading without money. A man takes out a crate from a car and gives it to another man. Buildings in the background. People buying vegetables from a market. A board reads: 'Never Mind the Holiday We will trust you'. Other board reads: 'You don't need money. What you have got? We will take anything'. A man arrives in the market holding a guitar. He gives the guitar to another man and receives a thing. A vehicle passing on a street. People gather in a large number on the street. Some of the people gather inside a building.
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt addresses people at the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
A power sub-station and the Great Falls of the Potomac River in the United States.
The Great Falls of the Potomac River in the United States. Banks of the river. A low river dam. High tension wires and a power sub-station in a wooded area. A stone wall and a building beside the river. Numerous views of the Potomac River and surroundings in the vicinity of the Great Falls.
Safety precautions by workers in factory settings in the United States, to ensure safe labor conditions.
Safety measures to be undertaken while working. Boxes are loaded in a hand truck in the United States beside a warehouse. The boxes fall on a passerby due to being carelessly loaded on the hand truck. A worker carefully lines up the boxes on the truck. Inside a factory plant, a worker rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before operating a large drill press in the factory. View of a large platform machine being operated by a giant pulley. A foreman views the pulley and the worker stops the machine. The pulley is disengaged and a man approaches with safety barricade pieces to place around the pulley while it is worked on. Slate indicates, "Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it is dangerous to the eyes. Use goggles and be safe. A worker working without goggles is then seen near a furnace. He covers his face with his hands and runs away from the furnace. A maintenance worker partially disassembles and then attaches a new guard over a large grinding wheel in a factory.
The cover of a box rises with successive detonations in a plant yard in the United States.
A large reinforced box in a plant yard in the United States. The cover on the box rises higher with successive detonations. A building in the background. Smoke from the chimneys of a factory.
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