EVB2934742: George Washington Carver (1864-1943) an agricultural chemist developed new products of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans to encourage crop diversity in the American South. Cotton mono-culture exhausted the land, was often ruined by boll weevils, and left farmers at the mercy of flucturatin prices. 1937 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934803: Aerial view of Greenbelt, Maryland, the first model community planned by New Deal's work and relief programs authorized by the Federal Emergency Relief Act, signed on May 12. 1933, during Roosevelt's First Hundred Days. Photo of the completed housing taken in March 1937 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934821: African American worker at an electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus for the World War II munitions. 1930's Tennessee Valley public works development provided needed industrial capacity for the 1940's war effort. Photo taken in TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1942 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934862: Sign of an experimentation station in Louisiana reads 'University of Louisiana and the Department of Agriculture, Cooperating.' New Deal farm programs continued under different names, with modified programs, throughout the 20th century, often in alliances with public universities. October 1938 photo by Russell Lee, Lee, Russell (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934513: Paris at the height of the 'Mississippi Bubble,' in 1720. John Law promoted shares in his Mississippi Land Company, causing a 400% price increase from January to May. The stock price declined to its original price in Dec. 1720, leaving many impoverished. Engraving by Eugene Guenin after painting by Edward Matthew Ward / Bridgeman Images