[Aiken County, S.C., scenes] [picture]; [193u-194u].

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[Aiken County, S.C., scenes] [picture]; [193u-194u].

Images of buildings and leisure activities at Aiken State Park, including 2 images of "family reunion: having a barbecue" and people eating in picnic shelter; and 2 views of group swimming and children learning to swim in lake.

5 photographs : developing-out paper, b&w ; 10.5 x 12.5 cm. or smaller.

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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...

Aiken State Park (Aiken County, S.C.)

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Federal Writers' Project (S.C.)

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Works Progress Administration created 1935; name changed to Work Projects Administration, 1939. From the description of [Works Progress Administration photograph collection: South Carolina places] [picture] ; [ca. 193u-194u]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 46460798 ...