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Works Progress Administration photograph collection

This collection contains 40 black and white photographs ranging in size form 5x7 inches to 8x10 inches. In addition to public works projects on reservations, the Works Progress Administration funded ...
UPI

On This Day: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
CNN

Work Progress Administration Art

American artist Allen Saalburg directs WPA artists at work in a temporary studio at the American Museum of Natural History on murals commissioned for the Arsenal Building in Central Park, New York ...
Hyperallergic

From Camera Clubs to Syphilis: The WPA's Practical, Modernist Posters

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...
WDBJ

This Day in History: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration was created under an executive order signed by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating the upcoming 250th ...