The farmer of the year 2031 works at his large flat-panel television (1931) Wikimedia Commons The March 1931 issue of The Country Gentleman magazine included this advertisement for Timken bearings.

Barcelona is the capital of the province of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. In the 1920s Barcelona was the fastest growing city in Europe. Modernisation and industrialisation were proceeding at a ...

Margaret Eldred, left, stands next to an unidentified girl and boy at the entrance of a milking barn. There’s a cow in the left side background and milk containers on the right. During the Depression, ...

Wednesday marks 90 years since the United States officially tabbed “The Star-Spangled Banner” as its national anthem.President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution to establish the ...

Bluefield, West Virginia, attorney and part-time barnstorming pilot Jarius (Jerry) Collins had no idea on Nov. 9, 1930, that his lunch in Danville with Staunton residents Frances Reynolds Holt and Mr.

On March 3, 1931, Harlem big band leader Cab Calloway recorded “Minnie the Moocher,” the classic tale of chasing opium that made Calloway a national star and put Harlem’s big band sound on the map.

El Pasoans were thrown from their beds, dishes rattled and light fixtures swayed when El Paso experienced three earthquakes between 4:40 and 6:35 a.m. Aug. 16, 1931. Rudely awakened early yesterday ...

During the Great Depression, all sorts of public works were pitched as make-work projects for the unemployed. One of the biggest called for a canal and infill to create industrial land and docks at ...

On Dec. 10, 1930 Vancouver taxpayers approved a proposal to spend $300,000 on three new buildings on the Vancouver Exhibition grounds at Hastings Park. “It was kind of a make-work project,” during the ...