Works Progress Administration: museum aid
Museums in the United States were among the beneficiaries of Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs during the 1930s. The WPA was an agency of the New Deal.
Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the New Deal.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.“The unemployed, the soup kitchens, the grinding poverty, and the despair”—the worldwide consequences of the Great Depression, from The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Overview of the Works Progress Administration.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940.
