Great Depression (39 results)

Paper Covers. Stapled Binding. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. As Issued. 73pp. Content clean, bright and sound. This pamphlet is in very good condition with covers showing very minor soil. Photos available on request. The cove is a photograph of East aYork civic workers in the Great Depression. (illustrator).…

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Condition: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover Fine in fine dust jacket SIGNED INSCRIBED TO ROBERT DAN A COUSIN BY NAIL ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE also includes a long two page letter by Nail to Robert Dan detailing family news. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Hunter Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 34 pages, 1 figure. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Economic History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 15 pages, 9 illustrated maps. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Agricultural History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 19 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 21cms. Category: Northern History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tight, unmarked; This book was written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young Canadians faced with the same prospects of unemployment, prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 382 pp with some monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £18.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 72 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment, has prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy.…

Condition: Very good. A press photo from 1932 of National Hunger March to Washington protestors stopped for a mass meeting at Reyburn Plaza in Philadelphia. This was the second National Hunger March-the first was in 1931-organized by the Communist Party USA's Unemployed Councils. Marchers were limited to elected representatives of local Unemployed Council branches, with 1,600 marching in 1931 and 3,200 in 1932. The march brought unemployed workers from across the country to rally in Washington, D.C., petitioning Congress for aid in the form of emergency winter relief and unemployment insurance. Photograph measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. With caption and manuscript verso. Some wrinkling with fold across lower third; stain across top third.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 20 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. Stein was arrested for the crime of "sus'' and the disposition is listed as "Pend." In 1930 "sus" meant the individual was arrested on suspicion of a crime rather than a specific charge. In the early 20th century, police routinely arrested people under vagrancy or "suspicion" laws to hold them at the station. This gave detectives time to interrogate them, take their fingerprints, and check if they matched any open cases. The "Disposition" line has the word "Pend" which stands for Pending, meaning the police were still investigating to see if they could officially charge him with a specific crime. The term "sus" became famous in England via the "Sus Law" (officially Section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824), which allowed police to arrest anyone they suspected was a loiterer or frequenting a space with intent to commit a felony. Ted S. Stein was picked up by the Akron police simply because he looked suspicious or fit the description of an ongoing investigation, and they were holding him while they figured out what to do next. Because his crime was listed as "Sus." (Suspicion) and the disposition was "Pend." (Pending), it is very likely that he was released without ever being formally charged or arraigned. Investigative "vagrancy" and "suspicion" detentions during this era rarely resulted in a permanent criminal trial record unless further evidence was uncovered. On the front side of the card, the entire Criminal History table is blank. This indicates that at the time of his arrest in July 1930, the Ohio State Bureau of Criminal Identification had no prior criminal records, aliases, or past convictions on file for him. His nationality is listed as "Am Hebrew" (American Hebrew) and born in Pennsylvania circa 1895. [Recto: Image 1] OHIO STATE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION Address: P. O. BOX 1354, COLUMBUS, OHIO NAME: Ted S. Stein CITY OR COUNTY NO.: 19763 Residence: Akron O. State Bureau No.: 398655 Occupation: none Prison No.: [Blank] BERTILLON SECTION Height: [Blank] O. Arms: [Blank] Trunk: [Blank] H. L.: [Blank] H. W.: [Blank] C. W.: [Blank] R. Ear: [Blank] L. Ft.: [Blank] L. M. F.: [Blank] L. L. F.: [Blank] L. F. Arm: [Blank] Description and Background Section Sentence: [Blank] Yrs. [Blank] Mos. [Blank] Days Fined: [Blank] Institution: [Blank] Date of Birth: Yr. [Blank] Mo. [Blank] Day [Blank] Nationality: Am Hebrew Where Born: Pa Age: 35 in 1930 English Height: 5 Ft. 6 1/2 In. Eyes: Blue Build: med. Complexion: med. Weight: 151 Hair: Black Other History Sections Marks and Scars: [Blank] State brief history of Crime Committed: [Blank] Criminal History Table Name: [Blank]Number: [Blank] City: [Blank] Date: [Blank] Charge: [Blank] Disposition: [Blank][mugshots pasted. Frontal one contains the number: 19763 [Verso:] SBI-8-29-25M OHIO STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION Superintendent: C. A. MYERS, Supt. COLUMBUS, OHIO Color: White Name: Ted S. Stein Class.: 8 M 29 / 18 R I O O 17 / I O O 18 [Handwritten classification numbers] Alias: [Blank] Date: 7/10 1930 Crime: Sus. [= suspicious] Ref.: [Blank] County: Sum. City: Akron Disposition: Pend. [=Pending] Right Thumb: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Index: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Middle: [Fingerprint present]Right Ring: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Right Little: [Fingerprint present]Left Thumb: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Left Index: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "N"]Left Middle: [Fingerprint present]Left Ring: [Fingerprint present with handwritten notation "W"]Left Little: [Fingerprint present][Bottom Section] [Purple date stamp, diagonally, left side:] JAN 13 1931 Prisoner's signature: [Blank] Left Hand / Right Hand simultaneous impressions: [Four-finger simultaneous prints for both hands are present at bottom row.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. RARE report on the Dust Bowl Great Depression Migration of "Destitute Citizens" Esther Cole Franklin. America's "Migrant" Problem. Part of the "Contemporary America" series (April 1941) vol II no. VI published by the American Association of University Women, "Social Studies Series". Washington, DC, 1941. 9"x 6", 23pp (including a 5pp section on suggested reading (which includes a reference to Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's "American Exodus"). NO COPIES are located in WorldCat. Original wrappers slightly dusted. Provenance: Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress (with their rubber stamp on the bottom of the front cover). Printed on a heavier stock. VG condition. [++ There is a significant amount of thinking that went into this thin publication, with Franklin clearly moving in the direction of federal and regional (and local) help and aid and care for the "migrant" folks living in a mobile world "on the edge of existence". This is a caring and thoughtful appraisal of the migration of "our destitute citizens".…

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket;maroon top-stain; 614pp. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear and with the top-stain deep and even. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly worn with a few tiny chips at extremities, spine panel subtly sun-darkened, Very Good+. The author's first novel, set in the halls of political and financial power in an unnamed midwestern state, in the fictional city of "Oklarada," during the Great Depression. Though not explicitly identified, events are clearly based on White's native state of Kansas. He was the son of Kansas newspaperman and agrarian populist William Allen White. HANNA 3769.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 63 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act provided for an 8-hour work day and 48-hour work week for industrial workers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 59 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 10 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act created a commission to oversee the administration of laws regarding combinations in restraint of trade (including mergers, trusts and monopolies) and other unfair business practices that were extremely detrimental to the public.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act introduced the first national housing policy. Despite demands for affordable housing from social reformers, the Act ended up setting the tone for all future housing legislation with the provision of loans for wealthier Canadians and promotion of homeownership and mortgage lending infrastructure. Some 3,263 mortgage loans were administered through the program between 1935 and 1938.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 53 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 6 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Wheat production and sales were hugely influential on the domestic economy of Canada. This Act made provisions for the establishment of a Canadian Wheat Board, and empowered it to buy wheat from producers at a minimum price to be fixed by the agency. Upon delivery to the Board, producers would receive the fixed minimum together with participation certificates which entitled the holders to a pro rata share of the net marketing profits received by the Board during a crop year. If the Board was unable to sell the wheat at a profit over the fixed minimum, the government would absorb the loss. Producers still had the option of selling to the Board at the fixed minimum or to private traders at current market price.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 44 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 5 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. By this Act, the government was authorized to create and operate a federal agency for fixing minimum wages in manufacturing and commerce as applicable to workers over the age of 16 years. The Act was intended to operate where no arrangements existed for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreements or otherwise, and where wages were exceptionally low.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 39 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that fair wages were to be paid to all persons employed on public works (including those to which federal aid has been granted by way of contribution, subsidy, loan, advance, or guarantee), and hours were to be limited to eight per day and forty-four per week.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 38 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 38 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act was designed to establish a national employment and social insurance commission, a national employment service, a national unemployment insurance program, and national health insurance plan. The legislation promised a minimum wage, federal regulation of working hours and conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, and an enhanced old-age pension scheme, among other measures. However, as many of these measures infringed upon provincial authority (as outlined by the British North America Act, 1867; 30 & 31 Victoria, Chapter 3; U.K.)they were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada and never put into practice.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 25 & 26 George V, Chapter 14 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 3 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act stipulated that industrial workers were entitled to a rest of at least 24 consecutive hours in every seven days, on Sunday wherever possible.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 & 22 George V, Chapter 58 (Statutes of Canada). Caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume. This Act was follow-up legislation to the Unemployment Relief Act of the prior year and was designed to help deal with the ongoing world wide economic depression and recent wheat crop failures in western Canada. The Act provided financial assistance to municipalities and the provinces for public works, farming activities, and debt maintenance, while maintaining peace, order and good government throughout Canada.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (9.5 inches). 21 George V, Chapter 1 (Statutes of Canada). General title leaf with Royal coat of arms; caption title, 2 pages. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act, passed in response to the severe economic conditions and widespread unemployment caused by the Great Depression, allocated $20 million for relief initiatives. Some aid came in the form of vouchers for food, clothing and shelter, but most relief came in the form of municipal public works projects (such as railways, roads, bridges, canals, and wharves). Money was also directed to provinces and municipalities to reimburse them for unemployment relief costs.…

First Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg. …

First Edition. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. 3 Kg. …

ALS. 2pgs. February 2, 1932. Lyndon Center, Vermont. An autograph letter signed Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith and addressed to his parents. Writing during the Great Depression, Smith, who was probably a student at the Lyndon Institute boarding school, regrets that he cannot come home for the weekend due to a lack of money but instructs his parents not to send more on his behalf: Dear Mother and Dad, I had a dandy little day, or as dandy as could be expected in a place like this. I got a spauling of sixteen apiece and that was just about 160 whacks too much. I am going to tell you that I am sorry that I will have to stay up here over the weekend because my financial standing is not to allow me to come home but dont think anything is wrong it is only the depression and I will be able to make arrangements to stay here because one of my pals is staying here and I can stay with him. Dont send me any more money to come home on because Ill see if I can help out by not spending any more money than I have to. Write again soon and tell me what you think of it. I have paid all my bills and I will be able to make out O.K. Write soon. Much Love Your 16 yr old Son Arthur Merrill Oliver Smith (Amos) (Budge) (Smith). A touching little anecdote showing how the Great Depression affected people of all ages and statuses. The letter is in fine condition.…

First Edition. ALS, 18 lines (ca 75 words) on a single sheet of printed stationery, 10" x 7". Original mailing envelope included (unposted, addressed simply "Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt"). Printed return address has been elided on both stationery and envelope ("Beatrice Donley / Morgantown, WV"); mild toning and wear; envelope darkened - Very Good and complete. Mrs. Donley writes asking President Roosevelt to intervene in a pending foreclosure by the Second National Bank of Morgantown (WV). After listing her and her husbands assets, which include a large candy factory, she concludes, ".Please make some arrangements with the Receiver of the Bank Mrs. Cassidy, Morgantown W.Va. so I will have some place to live / Yours Truly / Mrs. O.O. Donley." The author's husband, Orris Otto Donley, a Morgantown businessman, appears in contemporary newspaper accounts as the perpetrator of an $80,000 embezzlement against his uncle's estate, a fact not mentioned in Mrs. Donley's letter. Millions of similar messages were sent by desperate citizens to the White House in the years of the Great Depression, often, as here, in a last-ditch attempt to forestall homelessness. A collection of such letters, edited by Robert McIlvaine, was published in 1986 by the University of North Carolina Press under the title Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man. Signed. …

12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. Condition: Some wrinkles; near fine. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast's publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside's tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines' readers as the people who stay rich, or get even richer, during times of economic upheaval: the "Successful Class [which] profits first" because it contains the "ablest, the most ingenious, and the most ambitious people in the land." "The time has come", the broadside advises, "to re-sell themhard." We find no copies of this broadside in OCLC.…

Condition: Very Good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the time, with text along the borders listing the towns and the telephone numbers of various services and lodging options. The instructions on the the top read "Put Out Your Fires / Leave a Clean Camp / Keep the Streams Pure / Don't Be a Road Hog." According to the single copy in OCLC, at the Denver Public Library, the map was printed in 1930, though we see no date on the map itself. The depression hit Oklahoma following the drought in 1930, which also coincided with the opening of the East Texas oil field. This map is a relic of the period just before the state's economic downturn, with the early automobile infrastructure still intact and vibrant. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good.…