Mr. Roosevelt Comes to Champaign County:
An Examination of the New Deal
Marshall
Schacht (St. Joseph-Ogden High School)
Fellowship Summer 2009
Champaign County Historical Archives
Sources
Newspapers:
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“Initial
Relief” from Champaign-Urbana News Gazette February 16, 1989 (Part I, Part II) Champaign
County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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“FDR’s
Legacy endures in local sites” from Champaign-Urbana News Gazette May 2, 1997 (Part I, Part II); Champaign
County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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“Parasites on Relief” Daily Illini, Editorial: Sept. 21, 1934 (pg. 4) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Make Second Cut in IERC Relief Funds” Urbana Daily Courier: Nov 14, 1935 (pg. 1) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Drastic Cuts in Relief Due Says Miss
Gugenheim” Urbana Daily
Courier: Dec. 5, 1935 (p. 3)
; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“IERC
Violating Pact, Pogue Says” Urbana Daily Courier: Dec. 6, 1935 (Part I, Part II) ; Digital
Newspaper Collection; University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Relief Office Awaits Plans for PWA Here”
Urbana Daily Courier: July 8, 1935 (pg. 3) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Wilson Speaks to Supervisors” Urbana Daily Courier:
July 25, 1935 (pg. 3) (photo) ; Digital
Newspaper Collection; University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Work for 3000 Men in County’s WPA” Urbana Daily Courier: Sep. 7, 1935 (pg. 3) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“WPA Worker Gets in Trouble Trying to Pick His ‘Boss’” Urbana Daily Courier: Dec 6, 1935 (pg.
1) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“WPA Projects Here Valued Over Million” Urbana Daily Courier: Nov 2, 1936; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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“WPA
in DeWitt County” Urbana Daily Courier:
Aug 1, 1936 (Part I, Part II, Part III); Champaign County Historical Archives;
Urbana Free Library
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“Water Works to Modernize Village” Champaign-Urbana News Gazette: Dec 14, 1941; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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“Community Building Nearly Done” Champaign Urbana News Gazette: May 17, 1942 (photo); Vertical File, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library
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“Former
Urbana High Youth Declares CCC Is Great Outing and Pleasant Work”
Champaign-Urbana News Gazette:
Sept 9, 1933 (Part I, Part II) ; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free
Library
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“Applications for CCC Camp Work Will Be
Accepted” Daily Illini Sep 28, 1934 (pg. 2) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“CCC Costs Found to Total $443,000,000
for giving work to 850,000 Men During Year” Daily
Illini: Sep. 30, 1934 (pg. 11)
; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Would Militarize CCC” Urbana Daily Courier:
Aug 1, 1936 ; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free
Library
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“Danville Area Named Kickapoo State Park”
Urbana Daily Courier: Aug 13, 1939; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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“Lehmann Tells Plan for Farm
Electrification” Urbana Daily Courier: Sept. 18, 1935 (pg. 3) ; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
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“Electric
Lines Serve 12,000 Farm Families” Urbana Daily Courier: Aug. 19, 1938 (Part I, Part II); Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free
Library
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“1,471 at Work on County WPA Jobs
Saturday” Urbana Daily
Courier: Dec. 28, 1935; Digital Newspaper Collection;
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Photographs:
“Rural Power Network Grows” (Cooperative Map):
Urbana Daily Courier: Dec. 20,
1938
Works Progress
Administration Photographic File.
Pictures from the Urbana Daily Courier, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.
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Dec.
28 1935 Stump removal
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Dec
28, 1935 Sewer Project NW Champaign (Vine and
Prospect)
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Dec
28, 1935 Storm Drain catch basins (175 employed)
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Dec
28, 1935 Street Improvement (Matthew Ave, Urbana)
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Dec
28, 1935 Crystal Lake Park (pump and tile…connect
lake with Saline branch)
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Dec
28, 1935 Reclamation Park (Urbana)
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Dec
28, 1935 Repairing books at Urbana Free Library
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Dec.
28 1935 “Riprapping Boneyard” 2nd and
Springfield in Champaign
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Dec
28, 1935 Relaying Brick Sidewalks (Oregon St.,
Urbana)
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Dec
28, 1935 “Ditch Gang” Church St., Champaign
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Dec
28, 1935 NW Champaign Sewer Project
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June
25 1936 “Playday”
at Hessel Park
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June
25, 1936 Croquet
at Crystal Lake Park
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Dec
12, 1935 Recreation
Project…handicraft classes
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Mar
4, 1937 Boneyard
tunnel (Coler and Busey to Washington in Urbana)
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Jan
25, 1936 Book
Repairs at the Urbana Free Library
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Dec
23,1937 Candles
for Church Paraders (Champaign)
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Aug
18, 1937 Removing
rails from abandoned street car system (Champaign)
Works Progress
Administration District Map; Illinois Division of Operators; July 31, 1939;
Works Progress Administration
Photographic File; Champaign County Historical Archives; Urbana Free Library
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Leal
Elementary School (July 8, 2009)
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Champaign
Central High School (June 24, 2009)
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Champaign
City Building (June 17, 2009)
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Illini
Union (June 29, 2009)
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National
Guard Armory of Champaign (July 2, 2009)
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Windsor
Road Construction (June 31, 2009)
Political
Cartoons:
“The Best They Have to Offer” N.Y. World-Telegram: Aug. 11, 1934
“Follow the Leader” New York Herald Tribune: April 29 1933
“Depression Mud Hole” Birmingham Age-Herald:
Oct 2, 1933
“National Recovery Boat” Punch: June 5, 1933
“Show Me Those Guys (boxing)” Washington Post:
Dec. 4, 1935
