National Youth Administration of Texas Photograph Collection 1939-1941

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National Youth Administration of Texas Photograph Collection 1939-1941

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01947/01947-P.html

Collection includes photographs of young women being trained at a residential center in Huntsville, Texas, a group portrait of the National Youth Administration officers at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, the graduating class at Blinn College residential center, various administrators and students at the Walker County Fair in Huntsville and other activities and locations of the NYA in Texas.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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National Youth Administration

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The National Youth Administration of Texas was an agency of the Work Projects Administration and later the Federal Security Agency and the War Manpower Commission from 1935 to 1943. It offered “work study” jobs to students and youth aged 16 to 25. For the most part, they worked on public buildings, highways and parks all over Texas. Some also were in residence at educational training centers at colleges. Inclusion in the program was based on financial need. After World War II began the agency re...

Walker, Maude H.

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National Youth Administration (U.S.)

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