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Librarian Dorothea Asher looks on as soldiers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, check selections at the bookmobile operated by the Fairfax County WPA Library Extension Project.
WPA “packhorse librarians” delivered books and magazines by horse, car, and boat to isolated rural areas. This rider is working in Knott County, Kentucky.
Page 1 and 2: FDR, the WPA, and the New Deal Arts
Page 3 and 4: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Page 5 and 6: A Volunteers of America soup kitche
Page 7 and 8: Drought and dust storms were anothe
Page 9 and 10: The Civil Works Administration (CWA
Page 11 and 12: From its advent in 1935, the WPA em
Page 13 and 14: Children had to walk to school alon
Page 15: Outlets like this one in St. Louis,
Page 19 and 20: The WPA worked at malaria preventio
Page 21 and 22: The Beaver Dam School in Bleckley C
Page 23 and 24: When the Ohio River flooded in Janu
Page 25 and 26: Flood victims being inoculated by W
Page 27 and 28: A coal fire had burned under New St
Page 29 and 30: These boys are turning in shoes to
Page 31 and 32: “I see one-third of a nation ill-
Page 33 and 34: Archeological digs employed WPA lab
Page 35 and 36: The new Southside Bridge at Charles
Page 37 and 38: The WPA-built San Antonio River Wal
Page 39 and 40: A driving lesson being conducted on
Page 41 and 42: The WPA turned to defense-related w
Page 43 and 44: After World War II began with the J
Page 45 and 46: Four New Deal Arts Programs Four Ne
Page 47 and 48: The First Federal Art Program Publi
Page 49 and 50: Eleanor Roosevelt with Edward Bruce
Page 51 and 52: Ceil Rosenberg, “Snowy Days,” C
Page 53 and 54: “Postal Workers Sorting Mail,”
Page 55 and 56: Olin Dows, a Hudson Valley friend a
Page 57 and 58: Interior of the Rhinebeck Post Offi
Page 59 and 60: Harry Hopkins watching John Kovacs
Page 61 and 62: The WPA’s Federal Theatre Project
Page 63 and 64: The WPA’s Federal Writer’s Proj
Page 65 and 66: One of the musicians in the Detroit
Page 67 and 68:
Holger “Eddie” Cahill headed th
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A WPA children’s class at the Wal
Page 71 and 72:
Portland artist Douglas Lynch creat
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The lobby of Cook County Hospital i
Page 75 and 76:
Homer Dana, “Mexican Mother and C
Page 77 and 78:
Image from the “Portfolio of Span
Page 79 and 80:
Paul Clemens, “In the Dugout,”
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The W.P.A. 650,000 miles of roads 7
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There was a time when the people of
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