United States naval battleships, cruisers, destroyers, aircrafts and submarines engage in battle maneuvers on the occasion of Navy Day in United States. (World War II period).
Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a bread line or food relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.
Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).
African Americans swim in a pool constructed through Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. Children play and enjoy on various swings at children's park.
African American children at a nursery school in the United States during the Great Depression. They play, eat, sleep and undergo medical check ups. Adult African American citizens learn to read and write. African American men and women in Harlem New York attend a Spanish language class. Many African American citizens get employed through Works Progress Administration (WPA) and are seen performing land record indexing jobs, filing, and typing with typewriters.
African American girls learn household chores at a household training institute set up by Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. African American women making pastries inside a kitchen. A woman cuts a dough with a diamond-shaped cookie cutter. She coats the cookie with butter. An instructor watches the woman bake cookies. Black woman prepares a salad. Another woman takes a tray of muffins out of the oven. Two African American women turns a mattress over. They make a bed together. An African American nurse demonstrates using a dummy. The nurse massages the baby dummy’s legs. African American nursing students demonstrates with a patient. They put a patient to bed and serve food. They also undergo health care training and learn first aid, child and sick person care. African American and White women sewing together during a class. An African American woman helps a White man put clothes into a bin. A Black woman wearing glasses sewing a dress.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.