DescriptionThis photograph was donated by Ms. J. Joosten and it shows 21 male workers in the interior of a silk mill. The first man on the left, in the front, is Ms. Joosten's maternal grandfather, Stephen...
DescriptionThis letter, which has been translated from Yiddish, describes the ways in which the author felt that the Communist Party had infiltrated the Jewish farm co-operatives of New Jersey and used them as a...
DescriptionMan on the garment factory floor pulling with his hand an electric cutting machine over patterns drawn on the flat laid fabric. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that included a farm, a...