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    The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal...
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    Works Progress Administration, formerly known by the working name The Scrolls, is an American supergroup led by Sean Watkins, Glen Phillips, and Luke...
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    Glen Phillips (singer) (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    Peter Gabriel. In January 2008, Phillips formed the supergroup Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) featuring Phillips, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister...
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  • United States entry into World War 2 WPA, a 2009 album by Works Progress Administration (band) Win probability added, a baseball statistic Water pinch...
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    Sara Watkins (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    supergroup octet tentatively named The Scrolls, later named Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The octet is composed of Watkins, her brother Sean...
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    Benmont Tench (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    initially named the Scrolls, now officially known as Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The band is composed of Tench, Sean Watkins (guitar), Sara Watkins...
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    Sean Watkins (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration. He is the brother of Sara Watkins...
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    Pete Thomas (drummer) (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    he has been a member of the band Squeeze during the 1990s and a member of the supergroup Works Progress Administration during the early 2000s. Tom Waits...
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    Davey Faragher (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    supergroup tentatively called the Scrolls, (now officially Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)) had formed. The octet is composed of Faragher, Sean...
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    Greg Leisz (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    toured with him. In January 2008, Leisz joined the group Works Progress Administration, a band composed of Leisz, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister Sara...
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    The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. As many as 10,000 artists were...
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    2008) Works (in) Progress Administration Vol. 1 (October 1, 2008) Works (in) Progress Administration Vol. 2 (January 20, 2009) Works (in) Progress Administration...
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    Riverside Park Bandshell (category Works Progress Administration in Illinois)
    Illinois. The concrete bandshell was built in 1938–39 by the Works Progress Administration and the Murphysboro Park District. Riverside Park was opened...
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  • play saxophone and trumpet. In 1937, he played drums for a Works Progress Administration band in Portland. In 1946, when his father was transferred to a...
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    Grant City Park (Grant, Nebraska) (category Works Progress Administration in Nebraska)
    Grant City Park is a public park in Grant, Nebraska. The Works Progress Administration constructed the park between 1936 and 1939. Before the park's creation...
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    Nickel Creek (formerly known as the Nickel Creek Band) is an American bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), and siblings Sara Watkins (fiddle)...
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    Columbia High School (Mississippi) (category Works Progress Administration in Mississippi)
    journal l'architecture d'aujourd'hui. It was built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. In the 2021-2022 school year, the student body was...
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    Posey Rorer (category Works Progress Administration workers)
    different bands, The Great Depression finally forced him to retire from music. He began working as a woodcutter and in 1936 for the Works Progress Administration...
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    Watertown Stadium (category Works Progress Administration in South Dakota)
    and football games. The stadium was built around the 1930s as Works Progress Administration Project 4265, and still holds the original plaque dedicating...
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    Byron White United States Courthouse (category Works Progress Administration in Colorado)
    sculptures, with help from two assistants, working under the Works Progress Administration in 1936. Prominent artwork within the building includes four...
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    Ernest Smith (artist) (category Works Progress Administration in New York (state))
    Ernest Peter Smith (October 28, 1907 – February 25, 1975) was a Native American artist from the Tonawanda Seneca Nation. Smith painted mostly traditional...
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    Toledo Zoo & Aquarium (category Works Progress Administration in Ohio)
    efforts to create jobs. In 1934, construction began on the first Works Progress Administration (WPA) building in the zoo, the Reptile House. Federal funding...
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    improving the conditions of the elderly, workers, and the poor. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) supervised the construction of bridges, libraries, parks...
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    Wisconsin. It was built in Streamline Moderne style in 1941 as a Works Progress Administration project. The building seated 3,974 with permanent balcony seating...
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  • George Wright Golf Course (category Works Progress Administration in Massachusetts)
    construction completed as one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. It represents one of the least known but impressive...
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    held one large and one medium-sized band running against its east wall. Music was continuous as the alternative band was always in position and ready to...
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    Francine Everett (category Works Progress Administration workers)
    with the Federal Theater in Harlem, which was sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Among Everett's starring roles were the films Paradise in Harlem...
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    The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; Ottoman Turkish: اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, romanized: İttihad...
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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (category Second Trump administration cabinet members)
    childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress". On May 29, 2025, it was first reported by NOTUS that some of the studies...
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  • Artists Project (a division of the Works Progress Administration in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration) to Fort Sill Indian Art Center in...
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