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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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    PWA was much less controversial than its rival agency, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), headed by Harry Hopkins, which focused on smaller projects...
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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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    Construction Act. It was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). During the Hoover Administration, the federal government gave loans to the...
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    short-term benefits for the unemployed. Works Progress Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Public Works Administration Peters, Charles; Noah, Timothy (Jan...
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    the Works Progress Administration and the Office of Censorship, or were part of larger programs such as the many that belonged to the Works Progress Administration...
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    such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, among others, all of which created public goods...
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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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    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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    Works Progress Administration works at Arrow Rock State Historic Site, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, are works built by Works Progress Administration workers...
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    Pittsburgh saw its zoo grow beginning in the late 1930s when the Works Progress Administration and donations from foundations spearheaded expansions, including...
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    hardship of the time. In 1939, the FMP transitioned to the Works Progress Administration's Music Program, which along with many other WPA projects, was...
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    1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was...
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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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    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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    Mount Hood Golf Club (category Works Progress Administration in Massachusetts)
    on donated land as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and once consisted of a ski area. Today, Mount Hood serves as...
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    Bakersfield, California — not by the Resettlement Administration but by the Works Progress Administration. The camp inspired John Steinbeck's 1939 novel...
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    Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (category Works Progress Administration)
    public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, the Resettlement Administration, the Rural...
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    of an open pit in South Africa. The result reminded him of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) National Park poster, which he had posted to a subreddit...
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  • Mathematical Tables Project (category Works Progress Administration)
    computer. Begun in the United States in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it employed 450 unemployed clerks to tabulate higher...
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  • age 19 as senior artist with the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York City, he is among the most respected Washington...
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    for a modern school building, funding was granted from the Works Progress Administration to build Fruitville Elementary in 1941. Rural schools in the...
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  • 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Cussy Mary is also a "Blue" — the last of a line...
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  • The Delectable Negro (category Lambda Literary Award–winning works)
    on Works Progress Administration interviews, advertisements for runaway slaves, and slave narratives. The book includes textual analyses of the works of...
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    Sean Watkins (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration. He is the brother of Sara Watkins. Sean Watkins began his tenure...
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    Park, designed by Phelps Wyman, was completed in 1942 by the Works Progress Administration and lights were installed at its baseball park in 1948. In February...
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    McLain Rogers Park (category Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma)
    programs: the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration. "National Register Information...
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    "Cities and Towns § Missoula". Montana: A State Guide Book. Works Progress Administration: American Guide. St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers...
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    Otis Park and Golf Course (category Works Progress Administration in Indiana)
    donated to city of Bedford in 1935. It was largely developed as a Works Progress Administration project between 1937 and 1941, and includes examples of Classical...
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    Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum (category Works Progress Administration in Kansas)
    of the property was done in 1941 by the Works Progress Administration and the National Youth Administration. It was listed on the National Register of...
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