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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...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, 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. 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...

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

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 ...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbing up on scaffold erected for assembling a prefabricated building which is to be a camp work shop

Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbi...

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Sculpture exhibition New York City art project : Work Projects Administration.

Sculpture exhibition New York City art project : Work Projects Adminis...

Poster announcing exhibit of sculpture from the New York City Art Project, showing sculpture of a seated woman. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

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...

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

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress Admini...

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Spanish-American woman passing shuttle through warp in weaving rag rug. WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman passing shuttle through warp in weaving rag rug...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Texas, during Great Depres...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Leading east Texas citizens at mass meeting in San Augustine, Texas. Meeting to discuss raising of funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork

Leading east Texas citizens at mass meeting in San Augustine, Texas. M...

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

Spanish-American woman carding wool at WPA (Works Progress Administrat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and I'm out here." Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 73

Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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. Amos Asoian, Armenian of West Andover, Massachusetts, works as a truck driver on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and helps his family on their small vegetable farm

Mr. Amos Asoian, Armenian of West Andover, Massachusetts, works as a t...

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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...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Entertainers performing at a scrap salvage rally sp...

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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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The complicated mechanism of an airplane engine will be no mystery to these District of Columbia students when they finish their WPA vocational training course in airplane mechanics. Upon completion of training, they will be qualified for jobs in some phase of the construction or maintenance of the United Nation's air armada

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, 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

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

Detroit, Michigan. Display at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the W...

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

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community 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. Women preparing cans to be heated and cooked

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, start...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manual for Federal Theatre Projects, October 1935

Manual for Federal Theatre Projects, October 1935

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

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodat...

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TECHNICAL WORKS OF ARTS PROJECTS. FROM THE LEFT: EDWARD BRUCE, SECRETARY OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF FINE ARTS TO THE TREASURY; MRS. ROOSEVELT; L.W. ROBERT, JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF TREASURY; FORBES WATSON, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT

TECHNICAL WORKS OF ARTS PROJECTS. FROM THE LEFT: EDWARD BRUCE, SECRETA...

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

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

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depression

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depress...

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

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the old county courthouse. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. See general caption 49

The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the ol...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detail of construction of house occupied by WPA (Works/Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker and his family near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Detail of construction of house occupied by WPA (Works/Progress Admini...

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

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker living in Arkansas River bottoms. Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administratio...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feeding children of migratory agricultural laborers cod liver oil at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Feeding children of migratory agricultural laborers cod liver oil at t...

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

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery teacher telling story to children of agricultural workers living at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery teacher telling story to ch...

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

Negroes working on WPA (Work Projects Administration) project. Chicago, Illinois

Negroes working on WPA (Work Projects Administration) project. Chicago...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm worker's wife making hooked rug in sewing class. A WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

Farm worker's wife making hooked rug in sewing class. A WPA (Work Proj...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A good type of workman is building 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 power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 WPA (Work Projects Administration) 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.

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural scrap salvage. Collection of rural scrap became a popular enterprise around Dexter, Michigan soon after the War Production Board (WPB) started the project. Mr. Wright, Dexter farmer, meets Mr. Dawson and Mr. Larned at his scrap pile. Martin Holland, right, WPA (Work Projects Administration) engineer in charge of statewide collection, was very pleased with Mr. Wright's collection

Rural scrap salvage. Collection of rural scrap became a popular enterp...

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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...

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East Montpelier, Vermont. Richard, age five, son of Charles Ormsbee, who licks all the savings stamps and helps in other ways in the family war projects

East Montpelier, Vermont. Richard, age five, son of Charles Ormsbee, w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, 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. Canning beans and greens raised in a victory garden

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, general view

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

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Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loans. Washington, D.C., July 12. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today that the president's suggestion for loans totaling $600,000,000 for rural security projects is prudent and economic policy. He said there are 42,000 new tenant farmers each year, and 'if we continue to refuse aid to these needy families, many of them will inevitably drift in to the cities in an effort to get some kind of help there. The cost of supporting them on relief obviously will [be far greater than] the sum necessary to help them [get a new start on the land']

Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loa...

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Fontana Dam in the mountains of North Carolina, famous for their scenery, will be one of the biggest of the Authority's projects, being over 500 feet tall. (As it is under construction, no photographs are available but a general perspective view is attached in two copies, one of the prints being glossy but the other having better contrast for reproduction.) The downstream face of the powerhouse is developed in part as a gigantic show window. Considerable recreational and tourist development is expected for the vicinity, the Smoky Mountains National Park being next-door neighbor of the project. Visitors will be reveived at the upper level in a small structure marked by the flagpole towrd the right, from where a steep cogwheel car, used also by the operators and for the transportation of minor items, will give access to the powerhouse

Fontana Dam in the mountains of North Carolina, famous for their scene...

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Employee housing. To accommodate construction personnel at projects, most of which are at some distance from population centers, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) built permanent housing where there were reasons to expect such communities to be permanent. Being the single owner of land and of structures, the Authority used such housing projects to demonstrate modern principles of town planning of which other federal housing programs and private enterprise made use subsequently. The photograph shows a scene in the town of Norris, Tennessee, adjacent to Norris Dam

Employee housing. To accommodate construction personnel at projects, m...

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Visitors' buildings. Because the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) system is owned by the public, visitors are encouraged to inspect the projects, and do so in large numbers. Many of them arrive after traveling long distances; therefore, restrooms and refreshment concessions are provided. The photograph shows such facilities at south end of Pickwick Landing Dam, divided between twin buildings which straddle the earthfill portion of the dam. The buildings front on an overlook terrace which connects with broad stairs to the lock operating deck below

Visitors' buildings. Because the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) syst...

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Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mill "cuts out." This family lives on a cut-over area. The mill has closed, and the father does WPA (Work Projects Administration) work. Near Kiln, Mississippi

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mi...

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

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha,...

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Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Admi...

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

"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speaking before the 26th Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce today, John J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, declared the plight of the carriers is traceable to public demand for "something for nothing". At the same time he assailed government subsidization of competing transportation agencies and rebuked the business men for sponsoring "many needless and expensive waterway projects" in search of "cheap transportation," 5/4/38

"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speak...

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

Circleville Work Projects Administration office (see general caption)

Circleville Work Projects Administration office (see general caption)

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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 children, kids, 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...

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Bored Congressmen. Washington, D.C., March 30. How dull a congressional hearing can be is indicated in this picture made today shortly before the House Irrigation and Reclamation Committee reported favorably a bill authorizing the government to extend further relief to water users on federal Reclamation and Indian Reclamation projects. In various stages of repose are, left to right - Rep. Compton I. White, Chairman, and Reps. Thomas D. Winter - Karl E. Mundt - Henry C. Dworshak - J. Thorkelson -. With the exception of Chairman White, who is a democrat, the rest of the Solons are republicans. 3-30-39

Bored Congressmen. Washington, D.C., March 30. How dull a congressiona...

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Children taking their nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona

Children taking their nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery ...

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

Wife of a homesteader with her WPA (Work Projects Administration) music class. These children walk eight miles for their music lessons. Pie Town, New Mexico

Wife of a homesteader with her WPA (Work Projects Administration) musi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Little girl taking nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona

Little girl taking nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery sch...

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WPA (Work Projects Administration) work as visualized by Homer Tate. Safford, Arizona

WPA (Work Projects Administration) work as visualized by Homer Tate. S...

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Child of agricultural worker playing in the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Child of agricultural worker playing in the WPA (Work Projects Adminis...

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Spaghetti supper at Grape Festival, Tontitown, Arkansas / Photo by Granger, Works Projects Administration.

Spaghetti supper at Grape Festival, Tontitown, Arkansas / Photo by Gra...

Photograph shows people eating at long tables. Stamped on verso: "Work Projects Administration, Arkansas Writers' Project." Photographed as part of the "America eats" project for the Federal Writers' Project. ... More

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

Detroit, Michigan. Entertainers performing at a scrap salvage rally sp...

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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...

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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...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Entertainers performing at a scrap salvage rally sp...

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 WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

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

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Carpenters setting a frame at 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...

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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. Left to right; Mrs. J. Payater Holt and Mrs. Hampden Lawsen of Louisville preparing string beans for canning. The beans were raised by Mrs. Holt in her victory garden

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

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

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

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Instructions for Federal Theatre Projects - Play Rentals, Non-Royalty, and Choice of Plays - May 6, 1936

Instructions for Federal Theatre Projects - Play Rentals, Non-Royalty,...

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

N.Y. Mayor asks remove restrictions placed on relief bill [...] Washington, D.C., June 22. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York today asked the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to remove restrictions placed on the $1,735,000,000 relief bill by the House. LaGuardia also gave his support to an amendment restoring federal theater projects. Mayor LaGuardia, left, is shown Lowell Mellett, Executive Director of the National Emergency Council

N.Y. Mayor asks remove restrictions placed on relief bill [...] Washin...

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The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project

The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project

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Incidental features of engineering and other projects are designed with great care for their functional and aesthetic adequacy. The gantry crane shown here is typical of many more or less similar ones on TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) properties

Incidental features of engineering and other projects are designed wit...

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Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skills of the unemployed Div. of Women's & Professional Projects / / Halls.

Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skill...

Poster for Works Progress Administration exhibition of art works at Kaufmann's Department Store, showing stylized spinning wheel and potter's wheel. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administrati... More

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control projects, Washington, D.C., August 10. Seeking a decision as to what flood control projects will be started as soon as Congress makes available $330,000,000 authorized in the omnibus flood control ? as well as projects that can be begun with funds now on hand, President Roosevelt called in those administration experts today. Left to right: Frederick A. Doland and Abel Wolman, of National Resources Board; H.H. Bennett, Director of Soil Conservation, Dept. of Agriculture; General Edward M. Markham, Chief of U.S. Army Engineers; and Aubrey Williams, Assistant Administrator of WPA

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control pro...

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The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campaign to stamp out syphilis! Please let us have your help!

The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campai...

Poster encouraging cooperation in eradicating syphilis. Date stamped on verso: May 28 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washington, D.C., May 20. William Green, President of the A.F. of L. carried a protest to the president of the U.S. that a PWA order barred thousands of unemployed building workers from PWA projects because they are not actually on relief, that some of the labor unions are carrying these men, or have some other source of income other than government relief. Left to right: M.J. McDonough, Sec. Treasurer of the buildings Trade Dept. of the A.F. of L.; William Green, President; and Harry O. Dates, President of the Bricklayers Union, 5/20/1937

A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washing...

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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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Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Leaders of housing projects in the country's largest cities today met with Nathan Straus, Director of the U.S. Housing Authority, to exchange ideas and discuss housing plans now under way. This is the meeting Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York declined to attend. In the front row, left to right: George Green, Vice Chairman, Boston Housing Authority; Administrator Nathan Straus; and Ernest J. Bohn, member of Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Back row, left to right: Mrs. George Green; Walter Wright Alley, Executive Director Los Angeles Municipal Housing Commission; Coleman Woodbury, Director, National Association of Housing Officials and member of the Chicago Housing Authority; George Evans, Chairman, Penna. State Housing Board and Pittsburgh Housing Authority; and Marc J. Grossman, Chairman, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. 11/22/37

Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. ...

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