On This Day, May 6: FDR establishes Works Progress Administration

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the ...

Standing on history: Who built Chicago’s WPA sidewalks?

Ever notice a branded stamp in the sidewalk? Some signify Depression-era infrastructure projects by the Works Progress ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

WPA was a lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of people in the United States during a time of great uncertainty. Overland Trail Museum explored how the WPA started and its many ...
The Daily Reflector

Genealogy Corner: Works Progress Administration (WPA) Program

At the height of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of his New Deal. The purpose was to put America back to work. It was estimated that ...
Hyperallergic

From Camera Clubs to Syphilis: The WPA's Practical, Modernist Posters

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...