The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of...
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Works Progress Administration, formerly known by the working name The Scrolls, is an American supergroup led by Sean Watkins, Glen Phillips, and Luke...
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short-term benefits for the unemployed. Works Progress Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Public Works Administration Peters, Charles; Noah, Timothy (Jan...
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The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by...
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Great Plains Shelterbelt (category Works Progress Administration)
under the 1924 Clarke–McNary Act and was carried out by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Project headquarters were in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Raphael...
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the Works Progress Administration and the Office of Censorship, or were part of larger programs such as the many that belonged to the Works Progress Administration...
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Construction Act. It was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). During the Hoover Administration, the federal government gave loans to the...
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such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, among others, all of which created public goods...
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Pittsburgh saw its zoo grow beginning in the late 1930s when the Works Progress Administration and donations from foundations spearheaded expansions, including...
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Glen Phillips (singer) (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
Peter Gabriel. In January 2008, Phillips formed the supergroup Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) featuring Phillips, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister...
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illness, slum clearance, and a national work relief program (the Works Progress Administration) to replace direct relief efforts. It included programs to redistribute...
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New Deal (section Works Progress Administration)
Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial...
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Irving Kaplan (government official) (category Works Progress Administration workers)
Soviet espionage. Kaplan worked with David Weintraub in the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project, later moving to the Department of...
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hardship of the time. In 1939, the FMP transitioned to the Works Progress Administration's Music Program, which along with many other WPA projects, was...
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1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was...
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Arrow Rock State Historic Site (redirect from Works Progress Administration works at Arrow Rock State Historic Site)
Works Progress Administration works at Arrow Rock State Historic Site, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, are works built by Works Progress Administration workers...
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Toledo Zoo & Aquarium (category Works Progress Administration in Ohio)
efforts to create jobs. In 1934, construction began on the first Works Progress Administration (WPA) building in the zoo, the Reptile House. Federal funding...
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times. Several cherished historic resources include the various Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects located within the city. These projects, typically...
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Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum (category Works Progress Administration in Kansas)
of the property was done in 1941 by the Works Progress Administration and the National Youth Administration. It was listed on the National Register of...
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Harry Hopkins (category Works Progress Administration)
Emergency Relief Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, which he...
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Artists Project (a division of the Works Progress Administration in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration) to Fort Sill Indian Art Center in...
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Pool-Billiard Association World Psychiatric Association Works Progress Administration or Work Projects Administration, a former American New Deal agency Washington...
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Keyworth Stadium (category Works Progress Administration in Michigan)
during his second campaign for president. Keyworth was the first Works Progress Administration project in the state of Michigan. Democratic Senator John F...
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site and built several barracks and administration buildings. From 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), under the sponsorship of the...
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Mathematical Tables Project (category Works Progress Administration)
computer. Begun in the United States in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it employed 450 unemployed clerks to tabulate higher...
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appearances in the Federal Theatre Project, which was run by the Works Progress Administration, early in their marriage during the 1930s. In 1937, Lloyd starred...
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known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hallie Flanagan was born in Redfield, South Dakota. When...
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ISBN 978-1-55859-388-6. "Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Recovery Project". Office of the Inspector General, General Services Administration. Archived from...
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The Senator (tree) (category Works Progress Administration in Florida)
leaping from log to log. A walkway was later constructed by the Works Progress Administration. In 1925, a hurricane destroyed the top of the tree, reducing...
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Hoosier Gym (category Works Progress Administration in Indiana)
for the gym. In 1936, the school board used local and federal Works Progress Administration funds to make major improvements. The project included an exterior...
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