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#OTD in 1936 'Eleanor Roosevelt visits a Works Progress Administration Negro nursery school in Des Moines, Iowa. June 8, 1936.' Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #EleanorRoosevelt #preschooleducation
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#OTD in 1937 ‘Greensboro Art Center Week. Open House June 7–14. Visit your Community Art Center - Jefferson Standard Building. Sponsored by Greensboro Art Center Association and the #WorksProgressAdministration.’ #WPA #FederalArtProject #TheNewDeal
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21 Dec 2025
In #DECEMBER 1937 🧵👇 'A #WPA work crew installing a sewer line in #FrederickCounty, #Maryland, in December of 1937’ @LivingNewDeal #sanitation #infrastructure #sewers #WorksProgressAdministration #TheNewDeal #GreatDepression
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31 Oct 2025
In #OCTOBER 1938 👇🧵 Heslar Naval Armory, Indianapolis, Indiana. Architect Ben H. Bacon. #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA). Dedicated Oct. 1938. 👉ALT @LivingNewDeal #TheNewDeal #InlandNavalArmory #HeslarNavalArmory #ArtModerne #architecture #BenHBacon #indianapolis
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8 Oct 2025
#OTD in 1938 ‘Dedication of #UniversityofArkansas #Stadium. #Fayetteville, #Arkansas#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration project. October 8, 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum @LivingNewDeal
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29 Sep 2025
#OTD in 1936 ‘WPA workers under the direction of Dr. Jenks of the University of Minnesota excavating a site near #BrownsValley (#TraverseCounty). United States, #WorksProgressAdministration. September 29, 1936.’ @LivingNewDeal #archaeology #excavations #WPA #Minnesota
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28 Sep 2025
#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (2) 🧵👇 Dedication by FDR of the Timberline Lodge, a #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) project built on the south slope of Mt. Hood, Oregon, 1936-1938. #FDR dedicated the Lodge Sept. 28 1937, 5 months before the interior was completed, ➡️
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29 Aug 2025
#OTD in 1935 🧵👇 #FDR creates the #FederalArtProject (1935-1943), one of a series (along with the Theatre, Music & Writers’ Projects and the Historical Records Survey) making up Federal Project Number One, itself part of the W.P.A. (#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration). 👉ALT
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29 Aug 2025
#OTD in 1935 🧵👇 #FDR creates the #FederalArtProject (1935-1943), one of a series (along with the Theatre, Music & Writers’ Projects and the Historical Records Survey) making up Federal Project Number One, itself part of the W.P.A. (#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration). 👉ALT
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29 Aug 2025
#OTD in 1935 🧵👇 #FDR creates the #FederalArtProject (1935-1943), one of a series (along with the Theatre, Music & Writers’ Projects and the Historical Records Survey) making up Federal Project Number One, itself part of the W.P.A. (#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration). 👉ALT
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29 Aug 2025
#OTD in 1935 🧵👇 #FDR creates the #FederalArtProject (1935-1943), one of a series (along with the Theatre, Music & Writers’ Projects and the Historical Records Survey) making up Federal Project Number One, itself part of the W.P.A. (#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration). 👉ALT
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28 Aug 2025
‘A Trip Around the World at Story Hour Time - Story Hour Club’ WPA Library Center. Made for the WPA Statewide Library Project - Illinois by Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #WPAPosters #Chicago #PublicLibraries
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28 Aug 2025
#OTD in 1936 🧵👇 WPA worker making posters for Minneapolis Public Library events #WorksProgressAdministration, #FederalArtProject, Poster & Applied Arts Division 28 August 1936 @LivingNewDeal #NewDeal #WPA #WPAPosters #Minneapolis
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27 Jul 2025
#OTD in 1935: the Federal Writers’ Project inaugurated 🧵👇 #TheNewDeal’s #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA) set up Federal Project Number One to help provide public employment for artists who could not find work in music, theater, and writing, as well as the visual arts.
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30 Jun 2025
#OTD in 1936 WPA Street Projects by Counties, June 30, 1936 - ‘Works Progress Administration 2120. Darkened areas represent Counties in which operation of one or more Street and Alley Projects has been undertaken.’ #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration
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24 Jun 2025
In #JUNE 1936 ‘Photograph shows unemployed men eating in #VolunteersofAmerica #SoupKitchen, Washington, DC.’ #WPA (#WorksProgressAdministration). #ResettlementAdministration photograph. June 1936. #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography
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20 Jun 2025
In #JUNE 1938 🧵👇 ‘Family walking on highway, five children’ Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) ‘During her assignment as a photographer for the #WorksProgressAdministration (#WPA), #DorotheaLange documented the movement of migrant families forced from their homes by drought and ➡️
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16 Jun 2025
In #JUNE 1936 #WPA workers building a bridge in Harford County, Maryland, in June of 1936. University of Maryland College Park Archives #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #WorksProgressAdministration
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8 Jun 2025
#OTD in 1936 'Eleanor Roosevelt visits a Works Progress Administration Negro nursery school in Des Moines, Iowa. June 8, 1936.' Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #EleanorRoosevelt #preschooleducation
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