The Works Progress Administration: Key to Job Creation During the Depression

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

On This Day: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
insider.si.edu

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...