Work projects photographs, 1934-1935.

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Work projects photographs, 1934-1935.

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Photographs documenting various work projects under the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration and its predecessors, the Civil Works Administration and other phases of the federal work relief program in Wisconsin, 1934-1935. Included are images of road and waterway construction, drainage control, sewers, parks, swimming pools, airports, firewood, meat slaughtering, shoe repair, and mattress manufacturing.

94 photographs and6 negatives in 1 archives box.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924298

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Emergency Relief Administration

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In April 1934 the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration was established as a department of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin (see WIHV85-A2180). It absorbed the Unemployment Relief Department, the Wisconsin Transient Service, the drought relief program, and the work program initiated by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration upon the termination of the Civil Works Administration. The WERA continued to function until December 1935 when, by executive order, it was superseded by the P...

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...