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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 and 16: Outlets like this one in St. Louis,
Page 17 and 18: WPA “packhorse librarians” deli
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: The new Southside Bridge at Charles
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
Page 69 and 70: A WPA children’s class at the Wal
Page 71 and 72: Portland artist Douglas Lynch creat
Page 73 and 74: 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,”
Page 81 and 82: The W.P.A. 650,000 miles of roads 7
Page 83: There was a time when the people of

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