Grooming in 1930s North Carolina
Students investigate “Grooming,” an Extension Miscellaneous Pamphlet from North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service from January 1939. The document, from the Green N’ Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries, provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and women from the 1930s and will give students the opportunity to study what was considered attractive for the time, how the Depression affected grooming practices, and the universal concept of healthful living.
A lesson plan for Grade 8 and 11 , Economics and Civics, and United States History
Luna Early, the 4-H queen of health, April 18, 1930. Image from Green 'N' Growing at North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center.
Lesson contents
- Learning outcomes
- Teacher planning
- Pre-activities
- Activities
- Assessment
- North Carolina curriculum alignment
Learn more
On the web
- America from the Great Depression to World War II Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935–1945. An American Memory website.
- America in the 1930s An excellent website from the University of Virginia American Studies that includes film, text, audio sources.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Has an excellent curriculum guide as well as documents and photos.
- Great Depression and World War II A Learning Page from American Memory.
- Green 'N' Growing Presents nearly 3,500 photographic images drawn from the 4-H and Home Demonstration archival holdings of the North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center.
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Gallery 6 contains information about the Great Depression.
Legal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
