Long Island in the 1930s

Main Street looking east toward Henry Street in Kings Park. View more historic photos here

The U.S. Post Office in Patchogue, shown here in 1934, was the first federal building erected in Suffolk County.

Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, the American "ace" pilot who attained fame during World War I, with his wife and chldren on the sands of Montauk Beach in July 1930.

Then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, in Jones Beach during a tour of Long Island with Robert Moses, left, on July 26, 1931.

U.S. Customs agents unload the 700 cases of Canadian Scotch Whiskey from the fishing trawler "Notus," which was captured by the U.S. Coast Guard off Montauk Point on Feb. 23, 1931.

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his three sons, Franklin Jr., John and James, wave to friends ashore as they sailed aboard the yawl, Myth 11, in Port Jefferson in July 1932.

A young Jacqueline Bouvier, pictured with her mother Janet Lee Bouvier, wins third prize in the family class at the East Hampton Horse Show in 1935.

Beach-goers do coordinated exercises in the sand at Jones Beach in the summer of 1937.

A hurricane left behind destruction in Westhampton. (Sept. 21, 1938)

Jacqueline Bouvier, wearing a Native American Indian outfit, poses with a horse at East Hampton Riding Club in 1939. The swastika on her outfit is a traditional Native American symbol that was particularly widespread among southwestern tribes and predates the alteration and usage by the Nazi Party in Germany.