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 ...
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 ...
insider.si.edu

Almanac for New Yorkers, 1939 / compiled by the workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the City of New York ; with illustrations by the ...

Almanac for New Yorkers, 1939 / compiled by the workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the City of New York ; with illustrations by the WPA Federal Art Project ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When America Invested in Infrastructure, These Beautiful Landmarks Were the Result

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 ...