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 ...

During the 1930s and early 1940s, in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) put millions ...

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 was estimated that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 90 years ago on April 8, 1935, Congress established the Works Progress Administration as part of President Franklin ...