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An entomologist, director of the insect department of the Balboa Park Natural History Museum in San Diego, California, USA, employed by the Works Progress Administration of the New Deal, working on specimens. February 1937. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0864021 		An African American family from Houston, Texas, who has been living in California for two years. The father has found work through the Work Progress Administration, an organization of the New Deal. February 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange. digital colourisation. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0927382 		Workers on lunch break during construction of the locks at the upper Mississippi in Bellevue, Iowa, a project of the Works Progress Administration, part of Roosevelt's New Deal. Photo, early 1940s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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A women's singing trio, employed by the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal program, singing for the radio stations WSBT and WFAM. c1930. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0864008 		Graphic Arts Workshop in Philadelphia, PA, supported by employment subsidies of the Pennsylvania Art Project within the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Roosevelt's New Deal. March 1941. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825586 		A stone mason works on the Calvin Coolidge Memorial as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) within Roosevelt's New Deal. Rutland, Vermont. August 1940. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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African-American women sew clothes which are given to the poor by a local welfare organization part of the Works Progress Administration project of Roosevelt's New Deal. Oklahoma City, OK, March 1943. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825529 		Burlington, Vermont. View of the airport built as part of the Works Progress Administration, WPA, within Roosevelt's New Deal. August 1940. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825492 		Photographer with camera in Washington D.C., USA, employed through the Works Progress Administration part of F.D. Roosevelt's New Deal. c1930. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Tuppers Plains, Ohio, USA: Children pose in front of the new library, built by the community and filled with books donated by the Pomeroy Public Library and the State Library. The librarian was employed by the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal. c.1930s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825520 		African American doctor, employed as part of the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal program, examines a female patient in a lung clinic. New York City, September 1937. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0863937 		Construction of the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, USA. The tunnel built from 1934-37 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) within the New Deal. Tightening the nuts along the tunnel pipeway. undated. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Ohio School for the Blind in Columbus, USA: A worker makes a map for the blind, employed as part of the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal. c.1930s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825552 		Artist Georgette Seabrooke works on a mural for the nurses' lounge at a hospital in Harlem, New York City, as part of the Federal Art Project Mural, initiated by the Works Progress Administration, part of the New Deal. c.1930s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0863908 		A home care worker, employed as part of the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal, cooks for a family where the mother is too sick to care for her family. Oklahoma City, OK. March 1943. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Artists employed by the Works Progress Administration within Roosevelt's New Deal program, with a replica of the Liberty Bell which was created for the World Exposition, c.1939. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0863965 		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Artists employed by the Works Progress Administrationw within Roosevelt's New Deal program with a replica of the Liberty Bell which was created for the World Exposition. c.1939. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0863962 		Participants of a theater project for African Americans, organized through the Works Progress Administration, part of the New Deal project, in Birmingham, Alabama. September 1936. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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A monument for Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the northwest territory 1787 and Officer and politician of Scottish origin; 1734-1818, is completed in Marietta, Ohio by craftsmen employed by the Works Progress Administration, c.1930s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825561 		San Francisco, California: Mural, Cannery Workers, 1934, by Ralph Stackpole as part of the Works Progress Administration, in the interior of the Coit Tower. ©David R. Frazier / The Image Works
EFRA0234923 		View of the Hoover Dam during its construction. The Hoover Dam, called Boulder Dam until 1947, was built during the years of 1931 - 1937. It is built on the Colorado River where it passes through the Black Canyon. It is used for generating power and irrigation. c.1935 ©Scherl / SV-Bilderdienst / The Image Works
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Reading, Ohio: A view of a road where construction and work was part of job creation in the Works Progress Administration, part of the New Deal. c.1938. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825572 		Making signs for the Works Progress Administration as part of the New Deal developed by President Roosevelt's administration. c1930. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825476 		April 1, 1937: The finished turbine room of the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam, called Boulder Dam until 1947, was built during the years of 1931 - 1937. The canyon it is built in is called the Black Canyon. The river is the Colorado River. It is used for generating power and irrgation. ©Scherl / SV-Bilderdienst / The Image Works
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October 9, 1935: View onto the Hoover Dam during its construction. The Hoover Dam, called Boulder Dam until 1947, was built during the years of 1931 - 1937. The canyon it is built in is called the Black Canyon. The river is the Colorado River. It is used for generating power and irrgation. ©Scherl / SV-Bilderdienst / The Image Works
ESVB0237204 		Erie, Pennsylvania (USA): Courses for increasing safety on the roads at the Pennsylvania School for Safe Driving, an initiative of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Roosevelt's New Deal. Photo, early 1940s. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0825538 		Providence, Rhode Island: Historical sign noting builder of sidewalk in Providence. ©David H. Wells / The Image Works
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