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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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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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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Great Plains Shelterbelt (category Works Progress Administration)
emergency relief funds), FDR transferred the program to the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Great Plains Shelterbelt was allowed under the 1924...
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paintings took first place. In 1936 Rummler began working for the Works Progress Administration painting murals for the then still under construction Norwalk...
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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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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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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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New Deal (section Works Progress Administration)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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bridges are now entering their second generation, including the Works Progress Administration-financed South Omaha Bridge, now called Veteran's Memorial Bridge...
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sundown towns by newspaper articles, county histories, and Works Progress Administration files; this information has been corroborated by tax or U.S...
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For that reason, New York City was able to obtain significant Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and other Depression-era...
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Katherine Milhous (section Selected works)
Philadelphia, Milhous is also known for her graphic designs for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work has been exhibited at the 1939 New York World's...
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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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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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Harry Hopkins (category Works Progress Administration)
Emergency Relief Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, which he...
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Arrow Rock State Historic Site (redirect from Works Progress Administration works at Arrow Rock State Historic Site)
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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and worked in New Mexico. In the wake of his projects for the Works Progress Administration and participation in a MoMA exhibition in 1938, he became one...
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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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Timberline Lodge (category Works Progress Administration in Oregon)
(97 km) east of Portland. Constructed from 1936 to 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, it was built and furnished by local artisans during the Great...
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Coronado Heights (category Works Progress Administration in Kansas)
resembling a castle was built on top of the hill as a project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1988, a sculpture by John Whitfield was placed half-way...
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Irving Kaplan (government official) (category Works Progress Administration workers)
Soviet espionage. Kaplan worked with David Weintraub in the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project, later moving to the Department of...
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