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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.
[14] [39] The supervisor of the library in Harlan County was Ann Richards, a WPA employee. [40] In 1936, the WPA began planning to open a pack horse library in Somerset, Kentucky. [41] The Somerset library was supervised by Imogene Dutton. [42] By 1937, there was a pack horse library in Whitley County. [14]
Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
The WPA provided funding for architects to create a variety of buildings, including amphitheaters and lodges. [1] WPA architecture is akin to National Park Service rustic architecture. WPA Rustic, as opposed to National Park Service Rustic, as utilized in most national parks, involves more demarcation between the building and the landscape. [2]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Alexander Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge was a WPA project.
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WPA, a 2009 album by Works Progress Administration (band); Win probability added, a baseball statistic; Water pinch analysis; Woomera Prohibited Area, a tract of land in South Australia covering more than 120,000 sq km of arid 'outback'
Download QR code; In other projects ... English: Italian WPA workers doing roadwork on High Street, Dorchester (Boston), 1930s. Date: 1930s. Source: Family: Author ...