During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created his New Deal Program. It comprised a number of works projects to get people working again including the Works Progress Administration ...

The Works Progress Administration provided jobs to 8.5 million Americans between 1935 and 1943 during the Great Depression and the first years of World War II. Jobs ranged from graveling city streets ...

WPA put unemployed people to work at useful public projects, gave them paycheck. Thomas Domboski stands near the Toby Creek ponding area just off Union Street in Luzerne, a WPA project from the 1930s ...

Work Program Architects, an architectural firm in downtown Norfolk, has been busy redefining and shaping the landscape and culture of the area one project, one building and one neighborhood at a time.

Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the history archives of Naper Settlement. With the hot summer days approaching, there’s no better way to cool ...

An interview of Dale Goss conducted 1965 June 2, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project. Goss talks about the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project, ...

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