Works Progress Administration in Georgia, 1936 - photographs, 1936.

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Works Progress Administration in Georgia, 1936 - photographs, 1936.

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The collection consists of photographs depicting W.P.A. activities in Fulton and DeKalb Counties in 1936. The photographs provide good visual evidence of the extensive work done and include such diverse projects as the construction of Community houses, parks, roads and sewer systems; Federal Theatre productions and immunization clinic programs.

478 items (2.25 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7276370

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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...

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

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The Federal Theatre Project was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. It was shaped by national director Hallie Flanagan into a federation of regional...