CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1937, the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Airways and Airports Division organized an airport inspection trip to review work undertaken at ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of people in the United States during a time of great uncertainty. Overland Trail Museum explored how the WPA started and its many ...

At the height of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of his New Deal. The purpose was to put America back to work. It ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal agency created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs to millions of unemployed people during the Great Depression. Its main ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1937 Works Progress Administration (WPA) film celebrates New Deal programs designed to help the Buckeye State. Highlighted projects include ...

Long before "stimulus" became a dirty word in some quarters of Washington, the federal government put people to work building things. Lots of things. This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the ...

SAN ANTONIO — In the years before America entered World War II, the country was fighting its way through the Great Depression. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal had many components to create job ...

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 ...

NMAH copy 39088014650923 has bookplate: Gift from the Office of the Secretary to Honor the Smithsonian Institution Libraries 40th Anniversary 2008. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in ...