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List the WPA's initiatives in Ohio, as discussed in the clip. According to the narrator, who benefits from the WPA's work in Ohio? In what ways?
The colorful, 21-acre Munsinger and Clemens Gardens feature riverfront paths, fountains, ice cream and other entertainment.
Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to design a powerful, authentic-looking, 1930s, Works Project Administration (WPA) poster.
Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks explores the creation, disappearance, and rediscovery of 14 historic prints created for the National Park Service by ...
Seymour Fogel's 1938 “The Wealth of the Nation,” one of thousands of New Deal-era works owned by the General Services Administration, suggests a continuum of American productivity, from ...
Liz Foley-Dunstone remembers her “dear Uncle Jerry” fondly. He was in the floral business and had a shop on West Lafayette in Detroit, she says. When he died, he left two bronze statues to her ...
Rural Free Delivery and WPA Art in American Society R.F.D. 36, by Paul Meltsner, depicts a government worker steadily on his route delivering mail to the rural farms in the American heartland—a dead ...
The WPA Art Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a program created by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935 to boost employment and the purchasing power of cash-strapped Americans.