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Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...
It was not the PWAP but its better-known successor, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that helped support the likes of young Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock before they became luminaries.
Replacing an old iron and wood bridge, the 30-foot-wide, 135-foot span over Soquel Creek was built in 1934 by the Works ...
Local artist Kathy Stark's "See Jacksonville" pays tribute to local parks in the style of WPA-era national park posters.
Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...
On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration ... The WPA employed skilled and unskilled ...