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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water being on our minds with Ice Storm Fern still wreaking havoc, brought about a discussion of local artesian wells. There is a lot of time to have conversations when ...

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 ...

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 ...