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Works Progress Administration
The enduring effects of the Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration
Discover how Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration helped flourish museums in America
WPA Federal Art Project
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Works Progress Administration: Media

United States history

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The enduring effects of the Works Progress Administration
Overview of the Works Progress Administration.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Discover how Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration helped flourish museums in America
A discussion concerning why American museums flourished in the 1930s, from the documentary...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Works Progress Administration
An adult education program of the Works Progress Administration, c. 1930s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library/National Archives and Records Administration (Photo Number: 195301)
Works Progress Administration
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)
WPA Federal Art Project
Michigan artist Alfred Castagne sketching WPA construction workers, 1939. (Image...
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
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