Great Depression T-Shirts

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was an agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal was to eliminate cut throat competition by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of fair practices and set prices during the Depression. The NRA, symbolized by the Blue Eagle, was popular with workers. Businesses that supported it put the symbol in their shop windows and on their packages. Although not mandatory, businesses that did not display the eagle were very often boycotted.

A tramp catches a ride on a freight train during the Great Depression. 1935.

A tired old truck and a quote from Steinbeck's stark novel of the 1930's American Great Depression.

A tattered poster was fully restored by me and is now a Fantastic T-shirt or other item!

From the 1930's, the seal of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's " New Deal ", the Civilian Conservation Corps provided work for millions of men during the Great Depression. From 1933 to 1942 these men provided manual labor needed to improve America's public lands, parks and forests.

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath