Learn how the Works Progress Administration created jobs for 8.5 million Americans, revolutionizing employment and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Logan County Historical Society will meet on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 at Christ United Methodist Church, in the Fellowship Hall, at 7:00 p.m. Please park in the west parking lot and enter through the ...

Doug Schoppert will present an illustrated program titled “WPA Post Offices in the Leatherstocking Region” at the next Leatherstocking Stamp Club meeting at 7 p.m. June 9, in ...