The Works Progress Administration was formed 75 years ago, on April 8, 1935, when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 became law.
The Opening History aggregation includes seven digital collections related to the Works Progress Administration:
2. WPA Maps Digital Archive,
3. Education by Design: Educational Visual Aids from the Bienes Center’s WPA Museum Extension Project Collection,
4. WPA Cards Digital Archive,
5. Louisiana State Museum W.P.A. French Quarter Architectural Record,
6. Louisiana Works Progress Administration Collection, and
7. By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
as well as a variety of digitized items focusing on WPA in a number of other digital collections.
The photograph below, courtesy of Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, part of a larger King County Snapshots: A photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities digital collection, shows WPA picketers outside the Seattle Chamber of Commerce protesting against nationwide layoffs of WPA workers in 1937 due to reduced funding from Congress.
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