Add to ORKGThis booklet describes a number of work relief projects operating in Milwaukee County in the 1930s with lasting positive impacts on the county. Highlights include construction of the Village of Greendale by the WPA and Resettlement Authority, support for health department inoculations of children, introduction of hot lunch programs for rural school children, construction of the Milwaukee water filtration plant, toy loan projects, and development of one of the finest park systems in the nation
Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administ...
Regarded as one of the greatest struggles in American history, the Great Depression was a catalyst n...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows a students of a secondary education class which covered arithmetic...
From 1930 to the present Milwaukee city and county governments have created thousands of jobs for fa...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA), served as a catalyst for public works programs, specificall...
Throughout its history Milwaukee has seen shifting and complex interplays among local, state and fed...
The Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project represents the largest public work program for unskilled women ...
Review of: "Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation," by Peter Fea...
James E. SherowAfter the stock market crash of 1929, the country fell into a deep financial depressi...
Original description reads: "The May festival, a W.P.A. recreational program for school children, No...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows a home in Hamilton, Ohio, with a note on its reverse which reads "...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows the construction of the athletic field at Carrollton High School i...
The period between 1930 and 1940 saw the worst economic period in American History. In the northern ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) aided 8.5 million people across the United States during its...
In 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, the Mason City Chamber of Commerce authorized th...
Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administ...
Regarded as one of the greatest struggles in American history, the Great Depression was a catalyst n...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows a students of a secondary education class which covered arithmetic...
From 1930 to the present Milwaukee city and county governments have created thousands of jobs for fa...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA), served as a catalyst for public works programs, specificall...
Throughout its history Milwaukee has seen shifting and complex interplays among local, state and fed...
The Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project represents the largest public work program for unskilled women ...
Review of: "Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation," by Peter Fea...
James E. SherowAfter the stock market crash of 1929, the country fell into a deep financial depressi...
Original description reads: "The May festival, a W.P.A. recreational program for school children, No...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows a home in Hamilton, Ohio, with a note on its reverse which reads "...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows the construction of the athletic field at Carrollton High School i...
The period between 1930 and 1940 saw the worst economic period in American History. In the northern ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) aided 8.5 million people across the United States during its...
In 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, the Mason City Chamber of Commerce authorized th...
Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administ...
Regarded as one of the greatest struggles in American history, the Great Depression was a catalyst n...
Dated 1936, this photograph shows a students of a secondary education class which covered arithmetic...