Works Progress Administration: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	WPA • Work Projects Administration
Date	1935 - 1943
Areas Of Involvement	employment
Related People	Harry L. Hopkins • Minor White • Helen Mary Gahagan Douglas • Jack Levine

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Works Progress Administration

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Art Deco style poster in red and yellow tones, featuring a stylized hand playing a stringed instrument and text reading Exhibition, Federal Art Project WPA, Index of American Design.

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