+"Birmingham Alabama USA" +1935 stock footage and images

Workers being employed under Works Progress Administration for constructing houses in Birmingham, Alabama.

Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. First batch of 15,000 workers who were employed under the Works Progress Administration at a construction site in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers line up as their names are entered in a roll register. A worker wears a pair of tattered shoes. A man drinks from a mug. Workers construct houses. Houses after their completion. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.