This is one person who reveres him. Suzie. She was born with clubbed feet. Its now for spinal diseases. These were men put to work. You could go to a library and check out toys. These are three themes i identified. Beauty, permanence. This is a minors wife. She doesnt look like a dorothy lang photographer. I am sure she felt better. These are stair cases in new deal buildings. Part of the idea, i think this is really an expression of the old arts and crafts movement, which Elnor Roosevelt was part it. This was a janitor, once he checked me out, he said, come on in, i have to show you something. There was a beautiful wood laid mosaic. This is a marble mosai c. This is at the national zoo. And theres the beautiful rock work. They didnt build porto potties. This is a restroom in yosemite. We discovered these above phoenix. Then theres art work which celebrates people doing ordinary but indispensable stuff. This is up at timber line lodge. They were not used to seeing them or getting class
And Piedmont Avenue in oakland. This is in nevada city. These schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. This is the school you just saw. Teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. New nutritionist. Starving children dont learn well. They give them lunches. This is an art class in San Francisco hospital. Art class for crippled children. The photographers that i find of San Francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. You could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. There was also Adult Education too. This 1 learned one learned to read as many did. Many of the Community Colleges were a result of the new deal. Sacramento. I gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in San Francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the Treasure Island fair. And then theres these special schools for crippled children. This is in the Mission District and
Let me tell you about the project and a lot about San Francisco and by the end of this, youre going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. I am only scratching the surface. I havent even gotten through it. Its terrific. I recommend that is supplementary reading. Homework assignment that you have to do that. I am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in San Francisco and various other places as well, too. We have to really learn from the last Great Depression. Because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. The Great Depression was photo. The Farm Security division which turned good photographers into great ones. Berkeley photographer dorothy alang. These give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. The best we have, as well as movies, its difficult to million how it was. We tend to look back through the safety net, which was created by the new deal. It was very difficult for young people to
Clar. They are using a facility that was built by that. Finally, the public works is not well known, but should be. They gave grants and loans for dams and sewage. Sewage treatment. Airports et cetera. Hopkins couldnt stand each other. And were constantly battling. They kicked the Construction Industry back to good health. The upper right one is the alameda park station. They could not aid the private agencies. Alameda had its own electrical system. These are various projects. Los angeles storm drain system. They raised the dam. Your water is a product of pw a. They built the sacramento water reservoir. The fans were so well built that in fact, they are still in use. The engineers said we have to replace a ball bearing. We of course, have neglected our infrainstruct our and its rated to be a d and dropping. So if you dont pay your taxes, things do fall down. Much of it is things that were built during the new deal. Fortunately, they built them very well. So the stuff was really built t
Seismically safe schools. When you enter it, you go under a copper marquee. Enter to learn. We are all this in together. The Public Service is a noble thing. This is a San Francisco school that might be attractive to so eyes. It was a fire trap. They tore these down and replaced them. George washington. Hollywood high school. They have english, latin and greek. This is a middle school in long beach. It wasnt centralized authority. They chose the architects. The main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. There there is berkeley. And Piedmont Avenue in oakland. This is in nevada city. These schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. This is the school you just saw. Teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. New nutritionist. Starving children dont learn well. They give them lunches. This is an art class in San Francisco hospital. Art class for crippled children. The photographers that i find of San Francisco indicate that schools