Looking for the New Deal: Florida women's letters during the Great Depression

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

Library.1008

Description

xiv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Looking for the New Deal: Florida women's letters during the Great Depression by Elna C. Green. Includes hundreds of letters which paint a portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. This work reveals the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women, however, reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida. Contents: Introduction -- Before the New Deal -- 1933-1934 -- 1935-1936 -- 1937-1940 -- Epilogue: A funeral for Mr. Depression -- Appendix: Alphabetical listing of correspondents. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and index. Contents: Introduction -- Before the New Deal -- 1933-1934 -- 1935-1936 -- 1937-1940 -- Epilogue: A funeral for Mr. Depression -- Appendix: Alphabetical listing of correspondents.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Florida -- Sources., Depressions -- 1929 -- Florida -- Sources., Women -- Florida -- Correspondence., Women -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources., Sholtz, David, -- 1891-1953 -- Correspondence., Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945 -- Correspondence., Florida -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources., Florida -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Sources., Florida -- Biography., American letters -- Florida., Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945.

Publication Details

Author

Green, Elna C.

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Columbia, South Carolina

Call No.

F 316 .L66 2007

ISBN

9781570036586