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Men working on road for WPA photograph, 1939
The picture shows men wielding shovels and pickaxes clearing brush and weeds on the side of a road. The Works Progress Administration, later known as the Work Projects Administration or WPA, was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to help employ millions of unemployed Americans...
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| Collection: | Philadelphia Record photograph morgue (#V07) |
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| Date: | 1939-04-23 |
| Folder Number: | Folder 5029 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/1882 |
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The picture shows men wielding shovels and pickaxes clearing brush and weeds on the side of a road. The Works Progress Administration, later known as the Work Projects Administration or WPA, was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to help employ millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration was in place from May 1935 to June 1943, focusing on public works projects, employing workers to build roads, bridges, buildings, schools, and parks. |
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