Topics in Kansas History

Great Depression

Find resources on the Great Depression.

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Alf Landon's podium, 1936 presidential campaign
• Dust Storm print by Herschel Logan
• One-way plow
• Quilt by "Women In Our Neighborhood" club
• Statehouse mural studies by John Steuart Curry
• Stewardess uniform from United Air Lines
• W.P.A. Museum Project figures

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• Civilian Conservation Corps Newspapers

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "WPA Kansas," Autumn 2003

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "The Dirty Thirties!" March 1999