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@LivingNewDeal #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #recreation #SiouxCity #Iowa #FederalArtProject #PosterDivision #GraphicDesign
Today in 1935-during the #GreatDepression-Congress approved funding for US President Franklin Roosevelt's #WorksProgressAdministration, a program designed to put unemployed Americans back to work improving the nation's infrastructure. A worker's average salary was $41.57 a month.
Speeding through towns whose chain stores look as if they had been turned out on an assembly line, the American motorist is unaware of the infinite variety and rich folklore of the American scene … ➡️ #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA
#OTD 1935: The #WorksProgressAdministration was funded through the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act passed by Congress. The #WPA's work-relief program employed more than 8.5 million people and is one of FDR'S most famous #NewDeal programs. #GreatDepression #USHIstory
Today in 1935, US President #FranklinRoosevelt created the #WorksProgressAdministration, the #NewDeal's largest & most ambitious agency. During its run-which ended in 1943 & cost $11 billion-the WPA employed 8.5 million out-of-work people on 1.4 million projects. #GreatDepression
#OTD 1935: President #FDR created the #WorksProgressAdministration under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The program was created to provide jobs for unemployed Americans and to improve the nation’s infrastructure. livingnewdeal.org/what-was-the-n… #NewDeal #GreatDepression
#OTD in 1936 🧵👇 WPA worker making posters for Minneapolis Public Library events #WorksProgressAdministration, #FederalArtProject, Poster & Applied Arts Division 28 August 1936 @LivingNewDeal #NewDeal #WPA #WPAPosters #Minneapolis
#OTD in 1935: the Federal Writers’ Project inaugurated 🧵👇 #TheNewDeal’s #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) set up Federal Project Number One to help provide public employment for artists who could not find work in music, theater, and writing, as well as the visual arts.
‘A Trip Around the World at Story Hour Time - Story Hour Club’ WPA Library Center. Made for the WPA Statewide Library Project - Illinois by Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #WPAPosters #Chicago #PublicLibraries
A project of the United States Department of the Treasury, the #TRAP was administered by the #SectionOfPaintingandSculpture and funded by the #WorksProgressAdministration, which ➡️ [‘Air Mail’ #WilliamGropper. Post office, Freeport, LI, NY 1938]
‘Historic Shrines. Sites of #WPA Projects to Preserve Historic Shrines Include ... #StatueOfLiberty (New York), ....’ *Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the #WorksProgressAdministration*, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1938 #StatueofLiberty #restoration
In #OCTOBER 1938 👇🧵 Heslar Naval Armory, Indianapolis, Indiana. Architect Ben H. Bacon. #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA). Dedicated Oct. 1938. 👉ALT @LivingNewDeal #TheNewDeal #InlandNavalArmory #HeslarNavalArmory #ArtModerne #architecture #BenHBacon #indianapolis
Il #4dicembre 1943 Roosevelt chiude la #WorksProgressAdministration, la più grande agenzia del New Deal che ha dato lavoro a mln di disoccupati. La realizzazione di opere pubbliche e di grandi progetti è sostituita dall'aumento delle assunzioni nel comparto industriale bellico.
#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (2) 🧵👇 Dedication by FDR of the Timberline Lodge, a #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) project built on the south slope of Mt. Hood, Oregon, 1936-1938. #FDR dedicated the Lodge Sept. 28 1937, 5 months before the interior was completed, ➡️
#OTD in 1936 ‘Pouring concrete on storage unit. Ogden, Daris Co., Utah.’ #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration. September 9, 1936. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum @LivingNewDeal #Ogden #Utah
#OTD in 1935 🧵 Harry Hopkins, head of the #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration & #WorksProgressAdministration, speaking to reporters. File description, Library of Congress: ‘Hopkins slams Gov. Landon. #HarryHopkins, administrator of #FERA & head of #WPA, tells reporters that ➡️
Tomorrow is the 88th anniversary of the creation of the #WorksProgressAdministration, which resulted in more than 4,000 new schools, 130 hospitals, and 29,000 bridges being built. Back in 2020, @delaneycrampton imagined what a new WPA might look like: equitablegrowth.org/the-united-sta…
#OTD in 1935 🧵 Harry Hopkins, head of the #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration & #WorksProgressAdministration, speaking to reporters. File description, Library of Congress: ‘Hopkins slams Gov. Landon. #HarryHopkins, administrator of #FERA & head of #WPA, tells reporters that ➡️
In #OCTOBER 1938 👇🧵 Heslar Naval Armory, Indianapolis, Indiana. Architect Ben H. Bacon. #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA). Dedicated Oct. 1938. 👉ALT @LivingNewDeal #TheNewDeal #InlandNavalArmory #HeslarNavalArmory #ArtModerne #architecture #BenHBacon #indianapolis
‘Historic Shrines. Sites of #WPA Projects to Preserve Historic Shrines Include ... #StatueOfLiberty (New York), ....’ *Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the #WorksProgressAdministration*, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1938 #StatueofLiberty #restoration
@LivingNewDeal #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #recreation #SiouxCity #Iowa #FederalArtProject #PosterDivision #GraphicDesign
#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (2) 🧵👇 Dedication by FDR of the Timberline Lodge, a #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) project built on the south slope of Mt. Hood, Oregon, 1936-1938. #FDR dedicated the Lodge Sept. 28 1937, 5 months before the interior was completed, ➡️
#OTD in 1936 ‘Pouring concrete on storage unit. Ogden, Daris Co., Utah.’ #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration. September 9, 1936. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum @LivingNewDeal #Ogden #Utah
‘A Trip Around the World at Story Hour Time - Story Hour Club’ WPA Library Center. Made for the WPA Statewide Library Project - Illinois by Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #WPAPosters #Chicago #PublicLibraries
#OTD in 1936 🧵👇 WPA worker making posters for Minneapolis Public Library events #WorksProgressAdministration, #FederalArtProject, Poster & Applied Arts Division 28 August 1936 @LivingNewDeal #NewDeal #WPA #WPAPosters #Minneapolis
Speeding through towns whose chain stores look as if they had been turned out on an assembly line, the American motorist is unaware of the infinite variety and rich folklore of the American scene … ➡️ #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA
#OTD in 1935: the Federal Writers’ Project inaugurated 🧵👇 #TheNewDeal’s #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) set up Federal Project Number One to help provide public employment for artists who could not find work in music, theater, and writing, as well as the visual arts.
A project of the United States Department of the Treasury, the #TRAP was administered by the #SectionOfPaintingandSculpture and funded by the #WorksProgressAdministration, which ➡️ [‘Air Mail’ #WilliamGropper. Post office, Freeport, LI, NY 1938]
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