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THEATRE TECH (NYC 1933): Other Subjects

This guide will introduce research methods for New York City in 1933

Times Square

Times Square at Night -  The Great White Way still shines despite the Great Depression, in this photograph by Irving Underhill from the early 1930s. 

 

Siminoff, Faren R. "Times Square." Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 3rd ed., vol. 8, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003, p. 128. Gale eBooks, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3401804204/GPS?u=vero31952&sid=GPS&xid=0b6a0f93. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

 

V-E Day celebration in Times Square. Image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 Feb. 2020. school.eb.com/levels/high/assembly/view/142091. Accessed 14 Sep. 2020.

Orphanages

Christmas, 1928. NYC, an orphanage in Hell's Kitchen. Photographer unknown

Boy in boxing gloves at Hebrew Orphan Asylum 1935.

Center for Jewish HIstory, NYC.https://www.flickr.com/photos/center_for_jewish_history/7736437906/. Accessed Sept. 11, 2020.

Entertainment of the Era

MOVIES

The Three LIttle Pigs by Walt Disney - Released May 27, 2933

The Three LIttle Pigs. Disney Fandom. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Three_Little_Pigs. Accessed Sept.14, 2020.

 

King Kong by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Released March 7, 1933.

King Kong. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/mediaviewer/rm601267201. Accessed Sept. 14, 2020.

GAMES

Monopoly, invented by Charles Darrow, helped Americans achieve their fantasies of great fortune through buying and selling real estate. 

History of Monopoly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly. Accessed Sept. 14, 2020.

 

YoYo - A relatively cheap toy.  Sales skyrocketed during this era.

Out of this World: A Brief History of the Yo-Yo. https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/2017/05/out-of-this-world-a-brief-history-of-the-yo-yo. Accessed Sept. 14, 2020.