Reminiscences of Ben Shahn : oral history, 1960.

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Reminiscences of Ben Shahn : oral history, 1960.

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Early life in Lithuania and Brooklyn; training in lithography; painting experiences with Diego Rivera; Works Progress Administration project.

Transcript: 154 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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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...

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