Valentine Richmond History Center
Advanced Search
Waste Not, Want Not: Richmond’s Great Depression, 1929-1941

This exhibition highlights events, institutions, and individuals that shaped and influenced the city’s response to the Great Depression.



Ad, Magazine

[Gary Cooper Lucky Strike Advertisement]



Album, Photograph



Book

Famous Recipes from Old Virginia



Button, Campaign



Button, Campaign



Catalog

Wooden Ware Price List (Wooden Ware Catalog)



Cleaner, Vacuum



Cutter, Ice



Grinder



Iron
Hotpoint



Machine, Sewing



Machine, Washing

Laun-Dry-Ette



Map

Wards and Precincts



Painting

Cityscape



Painting
The First Canal Boat, Richmond to Lynchburg, Virginia



Painting

Self Portrait



Painting

Joseph and Elishia in Their Back Yard



Painting

Mayor J. Fulmer Bright



Painting

Martha Denham in the Atelier Courtyard



Painting
Clay Road



Painting

Staircase in Wickham-Valentine House



Painting

Dahlias



Pin, Commemorative



Pin, Political



Postcard

Central National Bank Building



Postcard

The New State Library and Supreme Court of Appeals Building



Postcard

If you think there's a depression . . . Look at this!...American Bank & Trust Company



Poster
Theresa Pollak-100 Years



Print

Lunch Room



Print
Negro Balconies



Print, Photographic

[Catherine Street Interior]



Print, Photographic

[Miller & Rhoads Painting]



Print, Photographic

[Sara November and Harold Whippo at Beaux Arts Ball, April 18, 1933]



Print, Photographic

[Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., c. 1933]



Print, Photographic

Whitlock Branch- P. Lorillard Company tobacco warehouse



Print, Photographic

[Mrs. Eudora Ramsey Richardson]



Print, Photographic

[Mrs. Roosevelt in Richmond]



Print, Photographic

Win Special Gifts Honors



Program

The Musician's Orchestra of the Civil Works Administration of Richmond, Virginia



Program

State Dinner in honor of the Governors attending the Twenty-Fourth Conference of Governors



Radio



Sculpture



Sign, Trade
Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts



Sign, Trade

Friedman-Marks Clothing Co. Inc.



Sign, Trade

[WPA Sign]



Soap



Tea Box (2 boxes)



Tin
Uneeda Bakers Butter Wafer Biscuits



Tin



Token

Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece