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Resources

Bibliography

Children looking at picture books at school, Santa Clara, Utah. October 1940. Russell Lee, photographer.

Leonard J. Arrington, "Utah's Great Drought of 1934". Utah Historical Quarterly 54, no. 3 (Summer 1986): 245-264.

Leonard J. Arrington, Utah, the New Deal and the Depression of the 1930s. Ogden, Utah: Weber State College, 1982

John F. Bluth and Wayne K. Hinton, "The Great Depression", Chapter 26 in Richard D. Poll, et al., eds. Utah's History, Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.

Jorge Iber, "'El diablo nos está llevando": Utah Hispanics and the Great Depression," Utah Historical Quarterly 66, no. 2 (spring 1998): 159-77.

John S. McCormick, "Hard Times", Chapter VIII in Salt Lake City, the Gathering Place. Woodland Hills, California: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1980.

Will South, "The Federal Art Project in Utah: Out of Oblivion or More of the Same?". Utah Historical Quarterly 58, no.3 (Summer 1990): 277-295.

Online Resources

America from the Great Depression to World War II (Library of Congress)

The Library of Congress's American Memory project has a fine collection of Farm Security Administration photographs of Utah scenes during the great depression, organized by County. To view photos, browse the Geographic Location Index.

Subject Index | Utah (New Deal Network)

Documents concerning Utah during the depression, from the New Deal Network. Most consist of letters and minutes regarding the CCC in Utah.

Lesson 12, "The Great Depression" (Southern Utah University)

A summery of social and political events in Utah during the 1930s. Lesson 12 of Professor Wayne K. Hinton's Utah History course at Southern Utah University.

Still Pioneers--1931-1940 (StandardNet)

A survey of important people and events in Utah, organized by decade. From the Ogden Standard-Examiner.

Civilian Conservation Corps: CCC's in Southeastern Utah (State of Utah Resources Web)

Designed by Janet Wilcox, a history teacher at San Juan High School in the Summer of 1997, the site contains essays, interviews with local residents and former CCC members, and photographs and other documents.

Utah Historical Society (Utah Division of State History)

Homepage to the Utah Historical Society.

The Great Depression (Utah History Encyclopedia)

Professor John S. McCormick provides a short but useful survey in this article from the Utah History Encyclopedia.

A Brief History of Utah | War and Depression (Utah State Historical Society)

A survey of Utah History, "For Kids," developed by the Utah Historical Society.

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah (Utah Education Network)

Photographs of Utah CCC Camps in Bountiful, Woods Cross, Willard, and Big Cottonwood, digitized from a 1937 University of Utah Master's Thesis. This site was created by Joel Briscoe, a history teacher at Bountiful High School, and Rich Finlinson, Utah Education Network staff member.