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A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washington, D.C., May 20. William Green, President of the A.F. of L. carried a protest to the president of the U.S. that a PWA order barred thousands of unemployed building workers from PWA projects because they are not actually on relief, that some of the labor unions are carrying these men, or have some other source of income other than government relief. Left to right: M.J. McDonough, Sec. Treasurer of the buildings Trade Dept. of the A.F. of L.; William Green, President; and Harry O. Dates, President of the Bricklayers Union, 5/20/1937

A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washing...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Leaders of housing projects in the country's largest cities today met with Nathan Straus, Director of the U.S. Housing Authority, to exchange ideas and discuss housing plans now under way. This is the meeting Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York declined to attend. In the front row, left to right: George Green, Vice Chairman, Boston Housing Authority; Administrator Nathan Straus; and Ernest J. Bohn, member of Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Back row, left to right: Mrs. George Green; Walter Wright Alley, Executive Director Los Angeles Municipal Housing Commission; Coleman Woodbury, Director, National Association of Housing Officials and member of the Chicago Housing Authority; George Evans, Chairman, Penna. State Housing Board and Pittsburgh Housing Authority; and Marc J. Grossman, Chairman, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. 11/22/37

Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. ...

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A black and white photo of a man and a child. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man and a child. Ohio during Great Depres...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Fred Good Shield

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Fre...

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A black and white photo of an old western town, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of an old western town, West Virginia. Farm Se...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Henry Crow Dog

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Hen...

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Rear view of Work Projects Administration worker's and old mine foreman's shacks and houses. South Charleston, West Virginia

Rear view of Work Projects Administration worker's and old mine forema...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Shadley Ponca

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Shadley...

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Shocking sugar beet seed near Chandler, Arizona. Until very recently sugar beet seed has been imported from abroad. This is one type of employment available to residents of the Chandler projects

Shocking sugar beet seed near Chandler, Arizona. Until very recently s...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - James High Pipe

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - James Hig...

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Describes value of subsidy for creative work. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. The value of federal "subsidy" for creative work was described to the House Patents Committee today by Mrs. Ellen S. Wooward, Assistant WPA Administrator in charge of the Government Creative Work Program. Without mentioning a resolution under consideration to establish a permanent Federal Arts Department, Miss Woodward gave it approval and told of the work relief theater, arts, music, writers and historical survey projects, 3/7/38

Describes value of subsidy for creative work. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell Log House Completed by Rehabilitation Funds

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell Log House Complet...

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Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

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A black and white photo of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

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A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depress...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Louise Cloudman

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Lou...

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Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Before Reconstruction of House - Alfred Light Pipe

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"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most...

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Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; sevent...

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In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Recreational, educational, cooperative activities in the camp are aided by Work Projects Administration instructors assigned to the camp programs

In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafte...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Before Reconstruction of House Completed - Laura Kills in Sight

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Before Reconstruction of House Co...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Narcisse Brave

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Nar...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - John Cordier

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Joh...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Reconstruction of House - Barney Two Eagle

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Reconstruction of House - B...

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A black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Ohio during Great ...

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Side view of shacks of Work Projects Administration worker and old mine foreman and families, Charleston, West Virginia

Side view of shacks of Work Projects Administration worker and old min...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: John Guere House before Repair

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: John Guere House before Repair

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A little girl standing in the doorway of a building. Ohio during Great Depression.

A little girl standing in the doorway of a building. Ohio during Great...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at Spring Creek

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at ...

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Side view of Work Projects Administration worker's shack, South Charleston, West Virginia

Side view of Work Projects Administration worker's shack, South Charle...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Jim High Pipe

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Jim...

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Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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Miniature pearl White House to presented to nation. Washington, D.C., June 11, 38. A miniature White House, made entirely of pearl shell and completely equipped with tiny reproductions of presidential furniture, was placed on view at the Willard Hotel today by group of prominent Washington club women. The replica is a gift of a New York art collector to the wheel of progress, National Womens Society, in recognition of its pariotic projects. Viewing the model are, left to right: Mrs. Florence Caroline Maxwell Ramsey, and Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president general of the wheel of progress, 6/11/38

Miniature pearl White House to presented to nation. Washington, D.C., ...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Rose Garry

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Ros...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Sylvester Roubideaux

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Sylvest...

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The Federal Arts Projects for New York City welcome the National Education Association of the United States Presenting plays, concerts, radio programs, art exhibits, publications, historical records, circus, Gilbert & Sullivan operas, guided tours of projects : For details inquire at NEA information booths.

The Federal Arts Projects for New York City welcome the National Educa...

Poster for New York City Federal Art Project presentation of festivities during the National Education Association's convention in New York City. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration ... More

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Charles Little Eagle

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Cha...

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Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man and a child.

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl Iron Shell

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl...

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PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha,...

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Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Admi...

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One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything. I bought tractors on the money the government give me, and I got shet of my renters. Right about half the people in these little towns used to be renters. They've got their choice--go to California or Work Projects Administration (WPA)"

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossr...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - John Cordier

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - John...

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"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speaking before the 26th Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce today, John J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, declared the plight of the carriers is traceable to public demand for "something for nothing". At the same time he assailed government subsidization of competing transportation agencies and rebuked the business men for sponsoring "many needless and expensive waterway projects" in search of "cheap transportation," 5/4/38

"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speak...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Logs Ready For Completion - Walter Metcalf

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Logs Ready For Completion - Walte...

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Circleville Work Projects Administration office (see general caption)

Circleville Work Projects Administration office (see general caption)

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Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), cen...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Moses B. Eagle

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Mos...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Moses Blue Horse

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Mos...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Rose Garry

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Pictures of Rehabilitation Projec...

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Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), centr...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - John Whipple Jr.

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - John Whip...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Estes Yellow Cloud

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Este...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Louise Cloudman

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Loui...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell "Living Quarters" before Rehab

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell "Living Quarters"...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Joe Frightened

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Joe...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Henry Crow Dog

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Henr...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Estes Yellow Cloud

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Est...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Ed Eagle Bear

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Ed ...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl Iron Shell

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Narcisse Brave

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Narc...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at Spring Creek

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at ...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

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All set for construction. Washington, D.C., April 20. While Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, the father of modern housing legislation, looks on with pride, Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, puts the final OK on the President's approval of $36,657,000 in contracts for housing projects in New York City, Augusta, GA., Jacksonville, FLA., and Louisville, KY, 4/20/38

All set for construction. Washington, D.C., April 20. While Senator Ro...

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Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration). "I was on this here project, Work Projects Administration, at twenty-three dollars and ten cents in Durant, Oklahoma. I sold a cow to get here. I'd go back tomorrow if I could. The project over there? I wouldn't like it. Your chickens would get all mixed up with the other peoples, and then there'd be trouble. It's kind of socialism over there"

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa...

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Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), ...

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PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secreta...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Moses Blue Horse

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Mose...

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Fred Good Shield

Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Fred...

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Spanish-American women, members of the WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project at Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American women, members of the WPA (Works Progress Administrat...

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Groups of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss means of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

Groups of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss means of ...

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Florida ship canal again brought up. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. One of the president's favorite projects, the Florida Ship Canal, was the subject of a meeting of the Commerce Committee of the Senate today at the request last week of the President. Senator Claude Pepper, Florida, traces the route of the unfinished canal to Chairman Josiah Bailey, Senator from North Carolina, 2-8-39

Florida ship canal again brought up. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. One of ...

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Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

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WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project supervisor making skeins of thread. Costilla, New Mexico

WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weavi...

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A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depression

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depress...

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Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Adminis...

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Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government. They have made a special study of irrigation projects in the United States. The princes at their own farewell reception in the nation's capital

Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ar...

Photo shows (left) King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud (1906-1975) who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 with his half-brother King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, (1912-1982) who was King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to... More

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

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Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers ...

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WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. "Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year"

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife ...

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Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Louis, Missouri

Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Lou...

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Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

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Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandoned mill village now occupied by Work Projects Administration (WPA) worker. General caption number 39

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandone...

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Running shuttle through warp in making rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project at Costilla, New Mexico

Running shuttle through warp in making rag rug at WPA (Works Progress ...

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Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

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Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Wor...

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Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

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Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administr...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress Admini...

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Corner of living room of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) road work. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Corner of living room of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Admini...

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Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have ...

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Vice President gets report of rivers and harbors congress. Washington, D.C., April 5. A Committee of Senators and Congressmen today presented to Vice President Garner the resolutions and projects adopted by the Annual Meeting of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. Vice President Garner has gone on record as approving the work of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, which adopted 51 projects involving expenditures of $6,689,946, which the Federal Congress will be asked in the petitions to make immediately available. In the photo, left to right - Vice President Garner - Senator John E. Miller of Arkansas - and Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri, newly elected President of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. 4-5-39

Vice President gets report of rivers and harbors congress. Washington,...

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

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Children of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) workers living in Arkansas River bottoms near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Children of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administr...

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WPA (Works Progress Administartion/Work Projects Administration) project supervisor displaying some of the articles made at her weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

WPA (Works Progress Administartion/Work Projects Administration) proje...

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