Work Projects 1935-1936.

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Work Projects 1935-1936.

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Photographs documenting the construction of public roads and facilities throughout the state of Georgia. The material is divided into two subseries. Subseries A consists of photographs of buildings, streets and other structures in mostly rural Georgia communities built by the Works Progress Administration of Georgia. Buildings include auditoriums, schools, jails, gymnasiums, water plants, and court houses. Other images include newly paved or widened streets, athletic fields, levees, swimming pools and golf courses. These photographs were included in a photo album put together by WPA administrators. The arrangement is alphabetical by location. The photographs in subseries B were removed from another photo album and also contain examples of road-building and constructed schools, but also include images documenting the Atlanta Municipal Sewer Project, and the Malaria Drainage Project, two major public works initiatives in the state. Their arrangement is according to project type.

222 photographs.

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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