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The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
The 1938 WPA history of Jefferson county quotes one Green family member on the controversy: "Col. Jas. Payne Green, writing of Springfield in 1922, states: 'Col. Green's (Thomas) family were the first settlers of this section now known as the Maryland Settlement (Church Hill).
Most of the spending came in two waves, one in 1933–1935 and another in 1938. Originally called the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, it was renamed the Public Works Administration in 1935 and shut down in 1944. [1] The PWA spent over $7 billion on contracts with private construction firms that did the actual work.
National director Hallie Flanagan with bulletin boards identifying Federal Theatre Project productions under way throughout the United States. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States.
(Note: New Deal historiographic work is a separate, albeit overlapping, topic that includes “the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Index of American Design, the establishment of the National Archives, the historic restoration work of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the WPA’s Historical Records Survey, and the hundreds of WPA ...
Materials from the America Eats project are held in various archives and libraries around the country, including at the Library of Congress and the Montana State University Archives and Special Collections. A large digital archive called What America Ate has been created to house the digitized remains of the project. [14]
The official mission statement was the "discovery, preservation, and listing of basic materials for research in the history of the United States". The creation of the Historical Records Survey was one of the signal events "in what Solon Buck called the 'archival awakening' of the 1930s". [1]
WPA Poster Not to be confused with The Fed One . Federal Project Number One , also referred to as Federal One ( Fed One ), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration , a New Deal program in the United States .