Timeline of the 1930s: Media
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A decade-high of nearly 12 million people were unemployed in the United States in...
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Pluto as observed by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 13, 2015.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot-Hawley...
National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-npcc-17371)
Uruguay scoring its first goal in the World Cup final against Argentina, in Montevideo,...
AP Images
Sheet music cover, published by William Dressler in 1861, for Francis Scott Key's...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-31279)
Construction of the Empire State Building, photograph by Lewis W. Hine, 1930–31.
© Lewis Wickes Hine—American Photo Archive/Alamy
Al Capone leaving a federal courthouse in Chicago, October 14, 1931.
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The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas by Salvador Dalí, 1931; in the...
M.Flynn/Alamy
Wanted poster circulated after the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., March 1932.
FBI
American aviator Amelia Earhart following her successful nonstop transcontinental...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
New York governor and presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting Georgia...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Building of the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction, c. 1934.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3c00678)
Group of men working at Norris Dam, photograph by Lewis W. Hine for the Tennessee...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (532717)
New members of the Civilian Conservation Corps waiting to be fitted for shoes at...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Cover page of the New York Daily News on December 6, 1933, the day after...
Daily News Brooklyn/Newspapers.com
Photograph allegedly showing the Loch Ness monster, 1934. The image, known as the...
© Keystone—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Still showing the seal of approval from the Hays Office's Production Code Administration...
1934 Fox Film Corporation/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Warden's notebook booking sheet for Harold Joseph (Hal) Fernandez, one of the first...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
The founding personality of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong established...
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Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, April 1935.
George E. Marsh Album/NOAA
Babe Ruth taking batting practice before a World Series game against the Pittsburgh...
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U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A chart issued under the Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze) that was intended...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Ehrbar through Hillel at Kent State University
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936;...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516)
Spanish Nationalists in position along the rugged Huesca front in northern Spain...
AP Images
Jesse Owens (second from right) on the winners' podium after receiving the gold medal...
AP
The duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and duchess of Windsor on their wedding...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Guernica, oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, 1937; in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte...
Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-gtfy-07248)
The Hindenburg in flames at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, May...
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First-edition dust jacket of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God...
Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., Merchantville, N.J.
View of destroyed buildings in Nanjing, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
German troops are enthusiastically welcomed during their march into Salzburg, Austria,...
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A civilian defense volunteer (right) showing an Army Air Corps member a barrel full...
Office of War Information/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-fsa-8b08080)
Welles (pictured in 1939) intentionally made his 1938 radio broadcast adaptation...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift of Elsie M. Warnecke
African American contralto Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,...
Harris and Ewing/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-hec-26452)
New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig bowing his head during Lou Gehrig Appreciation...
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Lobby card for the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) showing (from left) Judy...
© 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
A German armored division taking part in the invasion of Poland in 1939.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ61-618)