[Works Progress Administration artists working on Brookfield Zoo sculptures in the Chicago design studio.] [graphic] / [Brookfield Zoo archives]. [ca. 1936]

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...

Brookfield Zoo archives.

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Federal Art Project

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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...

Brookfield Zoo (Ill.)

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Ott, Peterpaul, 1895-1992

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Sculptor. From the description of Peterpaul Ott papers, 1930-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394532 Peterpaul Ott (1895-1992) was a sculptor in California. From the description of Oral history interview with Peterpaul Ott, 1965 June 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458412041 Sculptor; California. From the description of Peterpaul Ott interview, 1965 June 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195435 ...