Works Progress Administration projects in Wisconsin photographs ca. 1930-1939.

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Works Progress Administration projects in Wisconsin photographs ca. 1930-1939.

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Photographs documenting Works Progress Administration projects in Wisconsin in the 1930s. Construction projects include roads and bridges, public buildings, park structures and monuments, and sewer and water treatment facilities. Also included are images of celebrations surrounding projects.

88 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6923808

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...