Documents in Year 1939                     

Newspaper Clippings

Links of Interest:

• Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President

(1933-1945)

• Holocaust begins

was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during

World War II

• 1939 Vardiman Family Reunion in Marshall, Missouri

• Picturing the 1930s

This is a must see! The Smithsonian American Art Museum has put together a virtual museum / theater with artwork, video clips from the time period and music. Wander around the museum and click on what interests you!

• Ansel Adams

(American Scenic Wilderness Photographer 1933-1942)

• Dorothea Lange

(Documentary Photographer of Migrant Workers after the Dust Bowl 1935-1939)

• NBC establishes the first regular television broadcasts in the United States.

• John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.

• Nestle' develops the chocolate "morsel."
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 225