Great Depression
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84737502
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
David Williams Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-23-20-1
Scope and Contents
The David Williams Collection consists of over 100 interviews with members of the Valdosta community and surrounding areas that lived during the Great Depression. The interviews chronicle the major difficulties of life during this trying era. Topics include descriptions of the struggle for daily provisions for the family. The collection contains DVDs, VHS tapes, and audio cassettes. All the tapes in the collection have been digitized and are available on DVD for use.
Dates:
1910 - 1994; Majority of material found in 1994; Acquired: 2010-04-23
David Williams Papers
Collection
Collection number: UA-23-20
Abstract
Oral history interviews with Georgia residents during the Depression era, 1920's-40's.
Dates:
Acquired: 2011-04-29
Valdosta State University Alumni Association Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-24
Scope and Contents
The SGSNC Alumnae Association began in May of 1918, although some publications put it in 1917. It has continued on to the present day, as the VSU Alumni Association. The VSU Alumni Association collection contains materials from 1918 to the present. The purpose of the association is to keep the school's Alumni involved personally and financially with the college. Thus, the bulk of the collection is correspondence and published newsletters. The early Alumni performed other functions, such...
Dates:
1917 - 2001; Majority of material found in 1924-1932, 1960's -1970's; Acquired: 1995-10-16