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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

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Housing experts confer with U.S. director. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Leaders of housing projects in the country's largest cities today met with Nathan Straus, Director of the U.S. Housing Authority, to exchange ideas and discuss housing plans now under way. This is the meeting Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York declined to attend. In the front row, left to right: George Green, Vice Chairman, Boston Housing Authority; Administrator Nathan Straus; and Ernest J. Bohn, member of Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Back row, left to right: Mrs. George Green; Walter Wright Alley, Executive Director Los Angeles Municipal Housing Commission; Coleman Woodbury, Director, National Association of Housing Officials and member of the Chicago Housing Authority; George Evans, Chairman, Penna. State Housing Board and Pittsburgh Housing Authority; and Marc J. Grossman, Chairman, Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. 11/22/37

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

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Rear view of Work Projects Administration worker's and old mine foreman's shacks and houses. South Charleston, West Virginia

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Shadley Ponca

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Shocking sugar beet seed near Chandler, Arizona. Until very recently sugar beet seed has been imported from abroad. This is one type of employment available to residents of the Chandler projects

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - James High Pipe

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Describes value of subsidy for creative work. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. The value of federal "subsidy" for creative work was described to the House Patents Committee today by Mrs. Ellen S. Wooward, Assistant WPA Administrator in charge of the Government Creative Work Program. Without mentioning a resolution under consideration to establish a permanent Federal Arts Department, Miss Woodward gave it approval and told of the work relief theater, arts, music, writers and historical survey projects, 3/7/38

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PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska

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Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything. I bought tractors on the money the government give me, and I got shet of my renters. Right about half the people in these little towns used to be renters. They've got their choice--go to California or Work Projects Administration (WPA)"

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - John Cordier

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"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speaking before the 26th Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce today, John J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, declared the plight of the carriers is traceable to public demand for "something for nothing". At the same time he assailed government subsidization of competing transportation agencies and rebuked the business men for sponsoring "many needless and expensive waterway projects" in search of "cheap transportation," 5/4/38

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Logs Ready For Completion - Walter Metcalf

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Circleville Work Projects Administration office (see general caption)

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Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Moses B. Eagle

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Moses Blue Horse

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Rose Garry

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Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Repair of House - John Whipple Jr.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Estes Yellow Cloud

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell "Living Quarters" before Rehab

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Louise Cloudman

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Joe Frightened

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Henry Crow Dog

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Carl Iron Shell Log House Completed by Rehabilitation Funds

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Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

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A black and white photo of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Louise Cloudman

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Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Before Reconstruction of House - Alfred Light Pipe

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"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

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Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

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In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Recreational, educational, cooperative activities in the camp are aided by Work Projects Administration instructors assigned to the camp programs

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Before Reconstruction of House Completed - Laura Kills in Sight

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Narcisse Brave

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - John Cordier

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: after Reconstruction of House - Barney Two Eagle

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A black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Ohio during Great Depression.

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Side view of shacks of Work Projects Administration worker and old mine foreman and families, Charleston, West Virginia

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: John Guere House before Repair

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A little girl standing in the doorway of a building. Ohio during Great Depression.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at Spring Creek

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Side view of Work Projects Administration worker's shack, South Charleston, West Virginia

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Jim High Pipe

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Estes Yellow Cloud

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Ed Eagle Bear

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl Iron Shell

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Narcisse Brave

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Canning Kitchen and Community at Spring Creek

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Barns at Horse Creek Community

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All set for construction. Washington, D.C., April 20. While Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, the father of modern housing legislation, looks on with pride, Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, puts the final OK on the President's approval of $36,657,000 in contracts for housing projects in New York City, Augusta, GA., Jacksonville, FLA., and Louisville, KY, 4/20/38

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A black and white photo of a man and a child. Ohio during Great Depression.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Fred Good Shield

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A black and white photo of an old western town, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Henry Crow Dog

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Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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Miniature pearl White House to presented to nation. Washington, D.C., June 11, 38. A miniature White House, made entirely of pearl shell and completely equipped with tiny reproductions of presidential furniture, was placed on view at the Willard Hotel today by group of prominent Washington club women. The replica is a gift of a New York art collector to the wheel of progress, National Womens Society, in recognition of its pariotic projects. Viewing the model are, left to right: Mrs. Florence Caroline Maxwell Ramsey, and Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president general of the wheel of progress, 6/11/38

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Rose Garry

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Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration). "I was on this here project, Work Projects Administration, at twenty-three dollars and ten cents in Durant, Oklahoma. I sold a cow to get here. I'd go back tomorrow if I could. The project over there? I wouldn't like it. Your chickens would get all mixed up with the other peoples, and then there'd be trouble. It's kind of socialism over there"

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Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

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PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Moses Blue Horse

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Fred Good Shield

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: House before Completion - Sylvester Roubideaux

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The Federal Arts Projects for New York City welcome the National Education Association of the United States Presenting plays, concerts, radio programs, art exhibits, publications, historical records, circus, Gilbert & Sullivan operas, guided tours of projects : For details inquire at NEA information booths.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House before Completion - Charles Little Eagle

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Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man and a child.

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Pictures of Rehabilitation Projects: Log House after Completion - Carl Iron Shell

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Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

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Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government. They have made a special study of irrigation projects in the United States. The princes at their own farewell reception in the nation's capital

Photo shows (left) King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud (1906-1975) who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 with his half-brother King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, (1912-1982) who was King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under (WPA) project

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Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork making blackberry pie. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

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Bored Congressmen. Washington, D.C., March 30. How dull a congressional hearing can be is indicated in this picture made today shortly before the House Irrigation and Reclamation Committee reported favorably a bill authorizing the government to extend further relief to water users on federal Reclamation and Indian Reclamation projects. In various stages of repose are, left to right - Rep. Compton I. White, Chairman, and Reps. Thomas D. Winter - Karl E. Mundt - Henry C. Dworshak - J. Thorkelson -. With the exception of Chairman White, who is a democrat, the rest of the Solons are republicans. 3-30-39

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A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

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Massachusetts meeting called to discuss ways and means for raising county fund in order to continue WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork. San Augustine, Texas

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

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Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile unit

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

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Group singing during recreation evening at community school, under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreation supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

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Son of WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker swinging. The father is a former tenant farmer, now on WPA. These are potential and probable migrants. Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

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Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to California in 1920 from Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on Los Angeles Aqueduct; laid off two months ago. Now on way north looking for work. Doesn't want to go on Work Projects Administration (WPA)

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Massachusetts meeting of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss methods of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

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Massachusetts meeting called to discuss ways and means for raising county fund in order to continue WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork. San Augustine, Texas

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Articles on mantelpiece and photograph showing last reunion of deputy U.S. Marshalls in Indian territory. Scene in home of farm family now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/ Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

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Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

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President of bank speaking to a group of San Augustine county residents at a meeting held to discuss raising of funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

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Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley

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Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

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Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

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Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

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WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. "Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year"

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Work Projects Administration riverfront improvement project, Saint Louis, Missouri

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Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

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