New Deal

Children learn to mix colors at the Neighborhood House in Washington, D.C. (1935)

An experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland (Civilian Conservation Corps/Works Progress Administration, 1933)

Constructing road (Civilian Conservation Corps/Works Progress Administration)

Road project (Civilian Conservation Corps/Works Progress Administration)

Typing class (Civilian Conservation Corps/Works Progress Administration, 1933)

School in Alabama (Farm Security Administration, 1935)

Unemployed men eating in Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen in Washington, D.C. (Farm Security Administration/Works Progress Administration, 1936)

Kathleen Wilson of Arizona directing radio program written and put on by children of Junior Artists Club (Federal Arts Program, 1935)

Violin instruction in New York City (Federal Music Project/Works Progress Administration, 1936)

"Horse Eats Hat" with Joseph Cotton (Federal Theater Project/Works Progress Administration, 1935)

"Created Equal": Act I Scene 3 "Spirit of 1776" Boston (Federal Theater Project/Works Progress Administration, 1935)

Children watching Marionette Unit in New York, New York (Federal Theater Project/Works Progress Administration, 1935)

Brush-up classes to improve typing ability; group picture of women at typewriters in Illinois (National Youth Administration, 1937)

Men constructing stone building in Arizona (National Youth Administration, 1936)

Life Saving Class in Idaho (National Youth Administration, 1936)

Teaching a class on the Art of Self Defense at a Boise, Idaho YMCA (National Youth Administration, 1936)

Woman works washboard (Rural Electrification Administration)

Woman turning the nozzle on hose to washing machine with wringer (Rural Electrification Administration)

Elderly lady removes pie from oven (Rural Electrification Administration)

Little girl listens to radio (Rural Electrification Administration)

(Surplus Commodities Program, 1936)

Pumping water by hand from the sole water supply in this section of Wilder, Tennessee in Fentress County (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942)

Drilling a blast hole with a jackhammer; Douglas Dam project on the French Broad River, Sevier County in East Tennessee in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942)

"Test field of a practical operating farm on which TVA-produced phosphate demonstrates ability to encourage growth of protective vegetable cover, hence building up soil fertility (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942)

Display of arts and crafts projects in Kansas (Works Progress Administration)

Children's choral group (Works Progress Administration, 1935)