From 1936 to 1943, around 2,000 posters were created as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

The WPA appropriated 6.7 percent of the country's GDP in 1935—$4.9 billion—to hire millions of ... graphic art, photography, theater sets, museum scenes, arts and crafts, and two million ...

Works by artists who were supported by the Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) realized $460,490 at the auction block in a curated sale at New York’s Swann Auction Galleries ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder, Mary ...

Music, art classes, posters, plays and photography funded by the federal government were supposed to unite a nation in turmoil. ... Richard Wright contributed to the WPA's guide to New York City.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was introduced in 1935 by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to provide jobs and income to the growing population of unemployed in the United States.

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

WPA dollars began to reach Minnesota in late 1935, ... As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on the support of readers like you to keep our journalism completely free.