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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 ...
Altoona Mirror

Works Progress Administration trained artisans to make dolls

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration, later called the ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

WPA was a lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans

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 ...
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 ...