Explore tweets tagged as #WorksProgressAdministration
Joe Jones Artwork: 1. View of St. Louis c1932, 2. American Farm c1936, 3. Missouri Wheat Farms c1938, 4. Demonstration c1934 #PartyofCommunistsUSA #SocialistRealism #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration
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Another behind-the-scenes timelapse! This time it’s for my Shire National Park poster. 🌳 #theshire #lordoftherings #hobbits #art #timelapse #drawing #illustration #wpa #worksprogressadministration #graphicdesign #concerninghobbits #tolkien #middleearth #nationalpark
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The Book Women of Kentucky: Igniting Minds During the Great Depression: https://t.co/D7sCSYkBik
#BookWomen #LibrainLove #CelebrateLiterature #WorksProgressAdministration #BestsellingHistoricalFiction #KimMicheleRichardson
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Today in 1935-during the #GreatDepression-Congress approved funding for US President Franklin Roosevelt's #WorksProgressAdministration, a program designed to put unemployed Americans back to work improving the nation's infrastructure. A worker's average salary was $41.57 a month.
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Set against the bleak days of the Great Depression, an inspiring chapter of American history sprang from the rugged hills and hollers of Eastern Kentucky. Read more 👉 https://t.co/IKsKR9oGjj
#BookWomen #LibrainLove #CelebrateLiterature #WorksProgressAdministration
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#OTD 1935: The #WorksProgressAdministration was funded through the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act passed by Congress. The #WPA's work-relief program employed more than 8.5 million people and is one of FDR'S most famous #NewDeal programs. #GreatDepression #USHIstory
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Eastern, rural Kentucky, characterized by its geographical isolation, Before the Pack Horse Library Project, many Appalachian residents lacked access to books. Read more 👉 https://t.co/hgLEdn85A9
#BookWomen #LibrainLove #CelebrateLiterature #WorksProgressAdministration
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Today in 1935, US President #FranklinRoosevelt created the #WorksProgressAdministration, the #NewDeal's largest & most ambitious agency. During its run-which ended in 1943 & cost $11 billion-the WPA employed 8.5 million out-of-work people on 1.4 million projects. #GreatDepression
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#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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Exterior. 5 November 1940.’ @LivingNewDeal
#NewOrleans #publiclibrary #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #architecture #publicbuildings #libraryservices #blackandwhitephotography #urbanphotography #streetphotography
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#OTD 1935: President #FDR created the #WorksProgressAdministration under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The program was created to provide jobs for unemployed Americans and to improve the nation’s infrastructure. https://t.co/bVD0OtdoaC
#NewDeal #GreatDepression
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Glen Phillips 🎂(29 Diciembre 1970) #GlenPhillips #ToadTheWetSprocket #FlappingFlapping #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA #HoyenelRockOficial
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‘Historic Shrines. Sites of #WPA Projects to Preserve Historic Shrines Include ... #StatueOfLiberty (New York), ....’ *Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the #WorksProgressAdministration*, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1938 #StatueofLiberty #restoration
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#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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#OTD in 1935 🧵 Harry Hopkins, head of the #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration & #WorksProgressAdministration, speaking to reporters. File description, Library of Congress: ‘Hopkins slams Gov. Landon. #HarryHopkins, administrator of #FERA & head of #WPA, tells reporters that ➡️
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‘Mattress factory stuffing room workers, Seattle, November 6, 1934’ Photographer unknown #FERA would be closed down in 1935 & replaced with the #WPA (@WorksProgressAdministration) @LivingNewDeal
#blackandwhitephotography #Seattle
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