John Steinke photographs, ca. 1920s-1940s [graphic]
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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...
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The Art and Architecture Vertical File has been maintained throughout the 20th century by the librarians of the Fine Arts Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Like most vertical files, the librarians focused on maintaining clippings that related to the subject matter of the department, but there were also tangential clippings kept by the librarians related to various antiquities. Vertical files throughout history were kept by librarians as a reference resource of ...
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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...
Steinke, John, 1895?-1971?
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John Steinke (ca. 1895-ca. 1971) was a free-lance amateur photographer of German descent who was born in New York, but moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Most of his photographic activity appears to have spanned the 1920s-1940s. He lived in at least two different locations in Bratenahl during his lifetime: East 118th Street and Burton Avenue. By vocation, he worked in the sheet metal industry. As a photographer, he worked in a wide variety of genres, experimenting with fine-art photography as well as com...
Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Cleveland Photographic Society.
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