Views of Golden Gate Park 1921-1939.

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Views of Golden Gate Park 1921-1939.

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Unbound album of pictures taken by Burton of work in Golden Gate Park, 1921-1939, including jobs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration.

244 photographic prints : b&w ; mounted in album.

San Francisco Public Library, Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7779675

San Francisco Public Library, Main Library

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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...

Burton, Leo Riegel Taylor.

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The photographs depict engineers and surveyors in the office and in the field, as well as WPA workers laboring on project including road building and landscaping. From the description of Views of Golden Gate Park 1921-1939. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 60503494 ...