OnRamps History: Professional Learning Institute

pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. Can limit by location and more.

Selection of images - further relevant collections appear at the bottom of the page.

Photographs documenting conditions in schools for Mexican American children as part of "A Study of the Educational Opportunities Provided Spanish-Name Children in Ten Texas School Systems" by Virgil E. Strickland and George I. Sánchez (1948). This study preceded a successful District Court decision, Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, which led to desegregation of Texas schools for Mexican American children.

Projects that impacted everyday lives.

Many maps are digitized.

1937 film presents the social and economic history of the Great Plains.

You can limit to a decade.

multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.