Great Depression
Activities and Background Information
To Learn More
For additional information on one-room schools, look at the following resources:
Links on this website
- Breeding, Feeding & Weeding: Dairy Farming in Johnson County. ALBUM Fall 1995.
- WPA Beach House at Gardner Lake. ALBUM Spring 1998.
- Relief, Recovery and Reform: The New Deal in Johnson County. ALBUM Winter 2006.
- Albert T. Reid and the Romance of the Mail. ALBUM Winter 2006.
Other Websites
- http://www.kshs.org/cool3/wpadolls.htm Visit the Kansas State Historic Society website and see WPA figurines made for a WPA Museum project in the 1930s.
- http://www.wpamurals.com/kansas.htm An index of WPA murals throughout Kansas, including “The Romance of the Mail” mural in Olathe.
Books
- Sovida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. University of Kansas Press, 1986.
- Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. University of Kansas Press, 1994.
- Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Projects Administration for the State of Kansas. The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas. University of Kansas Press, 1984.
Publications:
- Novak, Susan. S. “WPA Kansas”. Kansas Heritage, Autumn 2003 (Volume 11, Number 3).
