Works Progress Administration: Media
United States history
Videos
Overview of the Works Progress Administration.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A discussion concerning why American museums flourished in the 1930s, from the documentary...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
An adult education program of the Works Progress Administration, c. 1930s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library/National Archives and Records Administration (Photo Number: 195301)
A decade-high of nearly 12 million people were unemployed in the United States in...
© General Photographic Agency—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, shown in 1935, the year many of the initiatives of his...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
WPA director Harry Hopkins, right, chats with New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Students eat lunch at a school for Mexican American students in Peñasco, New Mexico,...
U.S. Department of Agriculture
American painter Philip Guston sketching a mural for the Federal Art Project at the...
Philip Guston, 1939 Feb. 15/David Robbins, photographer. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Digital ID: 3027)
Georgia Flournoy was photographed between 1937 and 1938, as part of portraits of...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-125142)
A poster from the 1930s advertises an art exhibit sponsored by the Works Progress...
MPI—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A Works Progress Administration poster proclaims the Four Freedoms. The Freedoms...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3f05436)
President George H.W. Bush walks with his dogs at Camp David in 1991.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Michigan artist Alfred Castagne sketching WPA construction workers, 1939. (Image...
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
A poster by Vera Bock for the Works Progress Administration, c. 1936–41.
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3b48737)
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