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The WPA
URL: http://www.co.broward.fl.us/library/bienes/lii10200.htm

Description:
Website for an exhibition about the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which "commonly refers to the many agencies established by the Federal Government in the 1930s during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. ... [T]he purpose of the Works Progress Administration was to provide jobs for the unemployed who were able to work." Includes history of the WPA, exhibition checklist (with listings for state-specific items), selected bibliography, indexes, and appendices. From the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts.

LII Topics: The New Deal, United States History

Author:
Findlay, James A.; Bing, Margaret

Publisher:
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts

Extra Keywords
Federal Art Project FAP Federal Writers’ Project FWP Florida

LII Database Information:
Record 27520 created by Jennifer English on 12/15/2008
Last modification on 01/15/2009
Published: 01/15/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27520

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