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Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan for proposed Municipal Center, 1927 I

Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan for prop...

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Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Closeup view of powerhouse. Note texture of concrete on electrical bay which is typical of most TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) projects. Pattern is produced by alternating directions of grain in adjoining form panels. Rough-sawn lumber is used to make grain more pronounced. Heavy texture conceals color and surface irregularities of concrete and will become particularly valuable as concrete ages. Office floor is above flood level and has continuous glass brick strip

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Closeup view of powerhouse. Note text...

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Pickwick Dam. View of generator hall from visitors' overlook Note that photograph shows initial stage; present installation extended to four generators; ultimately six. Generator housings have been designed and finished on all projects with attention to architectural appearance as well as engineering efficiency

Pickwick Dam. View of generator hall from visitors' overlook Note that...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pickwick Dam. Reception room of a powerhouse which is somewhat difficult to reach (therefore, supplementary visitors' facilities were developed at the opposite end of the dam in separate buildings). Rest rooms, elevators, stairway, overlook balcony, and control room can be viewed either through glass doors from this room or from large plate glass openings of the overlook balcony. Terrazzo floor and base, burlap covered plaster walls, acoustic plaster ceiling. Graphic display is in a shallow wall niche between control room doors; top line shows three functions of projects in cross-sectional perspectives; photographs elaborate on TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program; map of valley is applied to specially constructed movable table

Pickwick Dam. Reception room of a powerhouse which is somewhat difficu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air from a distance of three to five miles up. The idea behind this gigantic job is to determine compliance in the Agricultural Conservation Program, plan soil conservation or Public Works projects, lay out roads, forests and public parks, drainage ditches, dams and lakes and also to seek to improve National Defense. (1) C.E. Kowalczyk, AAA worker, is shown making a stereoscopic examination of the finished photographic prints to determine the relief or elevation of land surface. 7/28/37

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28...

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Rear view of Work Projects Administration worker's and old mine foreman's shacks and houses. South Charleston, West Virginia

Rear view of Work Projects Administration worker's and old mine forema...

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Shocking sugar beet seed near Chandler, Arizona. Until very recently sugar beet seed has been imported from abroad. This is one type of employment available to residents of the Chandler projects

Shocking sugar beet seed near Chandler, Arizona. Until very recently s...

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Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Adminis...

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Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government. They have made a special study of irrigation projects in the United States. The princes at their own farewell reception in the nation's capital

Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ar...

Photo shows (left) King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud (1906-1975) who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 with his half-brother King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, (1912-1982) who was King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to... More

Curtis Whitlock, Sanpete County, Utah, Farm Security Administration rehabilitation client, was on Work Projects Administration relief for a time before he was able to rent a farm, after having lost out once in farming. His Farm Security Administration loan put him on his feet and bought him breeding stock such as the purebred sow in this picture, foundation dairy cows, and a fine work mare

Curtis Whitlock, Sanpete County, Utah, Farm Security Administration re...

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Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: William Allen Jones, Fort Benning, Paul Knight, Fort Benning, J.F. Goza, C.D. Brownlee and B.I. Juhan. For space only in W.T. Mullis' backyard they pay two dollars a week. Two of them are now working at Fort Benning and others the Williams Construction Company, building foundations for new barracks, got laid off couple of weeks ago for indefinite time. They all came from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, where they worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Some have been here one month. One said "There's something crooked in this here job--some men have worked every day seven days a week and others get no work at all. It's a dirty shame and the government ought to know about these conditions and see what goes on. It's awful bad."

Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: Wi...

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Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage ral...

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Childersburg, Alabama. Defense worker's child in WPA (Work Projects Administration) day nursery

Childersburg, Alabama. Defense worker's child in WPA (Work Projects Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Downstream face of Fort Loudoun Dam spillway with aggregate storage pile in the background. The new Fort Loudoun Dam is furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Thomas Benton of Louisville, whose husband is in the U.S. Army, skinning beets that she bought in town

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Visitors' buildings. The visitors' reception building at the north end of Chickamauga Dam performs the same functions as described for the one at Pickwick. Its overlook terrace is partly covered by a canopy roof and projects toward the chamber of the navigation lock for a more favorable view of the locking operation, which is of great interest to visitors. The guard cubicle which appears on the left of the terrace is temporary for the duration

Visitors' buildings. The visitors' reception building at the north end...

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Dams under construction. Kentucky Dam, close to the mouth of the Tennessee River, will be one of the biggest projects of the Authority and will back the water up for a distance of 185 miles. It will be completed in 1944. This photograph shows a partial view of the lock operation building, with the commanding officer's work space, shaped somewhat like a control cabin in the foreground on the second floor. The near wing contains visitors' rest rooms while the lock switchboard is in the far wing, entered through the door in the foreground of the picture. Visitors are admitted to the various roof levels to watch the locking operation

Dams under construction. Kentucky Dam, close to the mouth of the Tenne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations]

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of fede...

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Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrification Administration, puts his approval on seven rural projects which will place electricity in about 7,000 [...] farm [...] homes at a cost of $1,274,000. These homes, in the most part, have never been lighted by electricity. The projects are in Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Iowa, and Nebr. About 1,125 miles of lines will be constructed. 11/4/35

Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrifi...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations]

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of fede...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandoned mill village now occupied by Work Projects Administration (WPA) worker. General caption number 39

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandone...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Running shuttle through warp in making rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project at Costilla, New Mexico

Running shuttle through warp in making rag rug at WPA (Works Progress ...

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Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Wor...

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Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

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Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administr...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Corner of living room of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) road work. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Corner of living room of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Admini...

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Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vice President gets report of rivers and harbors congress. Washington, D.C., April 5. A Committee of Senators and Congressmen today presented to Vice President Garner the resolutions and projects adopted by the Annual Meeting of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. Vice President Garner has gone on record as approving the work of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, which adopted 51 projects involving expenditures of $6,689,946, which the Federal Congress will be asked in the petitions to make immediately available. In the photo, left to right - Vice President Garner - Senator John E. Miller of Arkansas - and Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri, newly elected President of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. 4-5-39

Vice President gets report of rivers and harbors congress. Washington,...

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) workers living in Arkansas River bottoms near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Children of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork making blackberry pie. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children looking at picture books at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

Children looking at picture books at the WPA (Work Projects Administra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children singing at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school. Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona

Children singing at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery sch...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp, Yakima, Washington, packing wooden apples at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Hazar Loosigian, Armenian. Runs a small vegetable farm. The money his son makes on WPA (Work Projects Administration) helps them get thru the winter. West Andover, Massachusetts

Mr. Hazar Loosigian, Armenian. Runs a small vegetable farm. The money ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand for the building of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Next stop is Don's house, one of a long row of new privately-financed housing projects in a critical housing area

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Next stop is Don's house, one of a long ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A pipe fitter at the Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Fred Kemper(left), and Mrs. Roland Kemper canning asparagus that they bought in the market

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Paradise Island model, detail III

Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Par...

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Hallie Flanagan - Instructions - Federal Theatre Projects

Hallie Flanagan - Instructions - Federal Theatre Projects

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Administrative Records - Background File. The Administrative Records - Background File (1935-40 and undated) consists of 10 containers (Boxes 1-10) and comprises corresponden... More

Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Louis, Missouri

Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Lou...

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Monopoly Committee told U.S. errs in sponsoring large scale rental housing projects. Washington, D.C., July 6. Morton Bodfish, Executive Vice President of the United States Building and Loan League, said today that the government was making an error in sponsoring large scale rental housing projects. He further declared that as a national policy the government should encourage home ownership

Monopoly Committee told U.S. errs in sponsoring large scale rental hou...

A man sitting at a table with a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan of Francis Scott Key Parkway, Georgetown, D.C.

Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan of Franc...

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Clothes, books and toys made on work projects

Clothes, books and toys made on work projects

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Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depress...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; sevent...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

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Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. "Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year"

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife ...

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Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Louis, Missouri

Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Lou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Son of migratory agricultural laborer in the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Son of migratory agricultural laborer in the WPA (Work Projects Admini...

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Negroes living on WPA (Work Projects Administration) in one of the bad slums areas in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Negroes living on WPA (Work Projects Administration) in one of the bad...

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WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which may be displayed on all construction work costing over five hundred thousand dollars with certain exceptions, to show that the work has been authorized by the WPA (Work Projects Administration)

WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which m...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Children eating grapefruit after taking cod liver oil at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Children eating grapefruit after taking cod liver oil at the WPA (Work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charts at the apple packing school at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. WPA (Work Projects Administration) supplies teacher

Charts at the apple packing school at the FSA (Farm Security Administr...

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Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp, Yakima, Washington, packing wooden apples at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

In the sewing class at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho. This is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project

In the sewing class at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor ca...

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First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations. At Wake and Midway Halls, she was greeted by Samuel Plato, building contractor, who had just turned the buildings over to the government. Mr. Plato is shown with Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss W. Gertrude Brown, resident manager of Wake Hall. The two buildings, opened last month for more than 800 Negro women war workers, were formally dedicated by Mrs. Roosevelt

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The upstream face of the spillway at the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The downstream face of the spillway of the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage ral...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Next stop is Don's house, one of a long row of new privately-financed housing projects in a critical housing area

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Next stop is Don's house, one of a long ...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing projects for Negroes near Bethune-Cookman College

Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing projects for Negroes near Bet...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing projects for Negroes near Bethune-Cookman College

Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing projects for Negroes near Bet...

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Buffalo, New York. Laura Czaya painting snubbers, a part of railroad car couplers at Symington-Gould. She is of Polish descent and formerly worked at Gould Battery. Previously she was forelady of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) sewing project. Her husband is in the Army

Buffalo, New York. Laura Czaya painting snubbers, a part of railroad c...

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Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Paradise Island model, detail I

Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Par...

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Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Paradise Island model, detail IV

Hartford Projects Ltd., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, New York. Par...

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Status of watershed projects, Maine /

Status of watershed projects, Maine /

Shows "Status of watershed projects as of October 1, 1980." Indexed. "Watershed status summary" table on verso. "1-13426." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

American guide week, Nov. 10-16 Take pride in your country : State by state the WPA Writers' Projects describe America to Americans / / processed by Penna. Art Program, WPA.

American guide week, Nov. 10-16 Take pride in your country : State by ...

Poster showing stylized eagle and quotation from President Franklin Roosevelt about the Writers' Project. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher D... More

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole with service ladders and handrails developed into decorative features is typical of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) navigation projects all up and down the river

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole w...

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The Division of Womens and Professional Projects of the Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of the skills of the unemployed on non-manual projects National Museum, 10th Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

The Division of Womens and Professional Projects of the Works Progress...

Poster for exhibition of works by unemployed persons at the National Museum in Washington, D.C., showing stylized eagle. Date stamped on verso: Jan 25 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Libra... More

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), centr...

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A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. War Poduction. Office of W...

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

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Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile unit

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after fathe...

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Group singing during recreation evening at community school, under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreation supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Group singing during recreation evening at community school, under dir...

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Son of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker swinging. The father is a former tenant farmer, now on WPA. These are potential and probable migrants. Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Son of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration...

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Little girl at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Arizona, WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school leading the "band"

Little girl at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Arizona, WPA (Work Projec...

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Children eating lunch at WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Children eating lunch at WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery sc...

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Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Howard and their son have been in Bath one and a half years. Used to live in their trailer some distance from Bath. Moved trailer into town about four months ago so that little boy could get to school. The trailer is homemade They used to live in Milo, Maine, where Mr. Howard worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration)

Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Howard and their son have been in Bath one and a ...

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Boys eating their lunch at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

Boys eating their lunch at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nurs...

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Children of agricultural workers are served lunch at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Children of agricultural workers are served lunch at the WPA (Work Pro...

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WPA (Work Projects Administration) work on playground on southside of Chicago, Illinois

WPA (Work Projects Administration) work on playground on southside of ...

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Excavating work, construction of sewage lines and sewage disposal plant, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) national defense project sponsored by the city of San Diego. All excavating on this project up to date has been done by hand--but big equipment is now being moved in. San Diego, California

Excavating work, construction of sewage lines and sewage disposal plan...

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