UI Student Life during the Great Depression, 1928-39:

In 2000 and 2001, the Student Life and Culture Archival Program conducted an oral history project which focuses on preserving the recollections of students who attended the University of Illinois just prior to and during the Great Depression era. For more information on access to full transcripts and tapes click here.

 

Click on one of the links below the read the stories of U of I students during this era.

 

Sidney Bar Dilks
Class of 1928
Florence Hood Miner
Class of 1929
Royal Bartlett
Class of 1931
Kay Fishbaugh Carr
Class of 1931
Darius Phebus
Class of 1933
Auelio "Joe" Florio
Class of 1934
Kathryn G. Hansen Class of 1934 Mary Kay Hansen Peer
Class of 1934
Anita Crites Crawford
Class of 1935
Jean Peabody Taylor
Class of 1935
Ruth Kuhn Youngerman
Class of 1935
Louise Proctor Allen
Class of 1936
Betty Ann Knight
Class of 1938
Wanda Spencer Larson
Class of 1938
Albert C. Spurlock
Class of 1938