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Family and Community programs funded by the WPA during the Great Depression, in Ohio, United States.
Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.
People gather at the Ford dealer merit club meeting on a large river boat in Michigan
A river paddle boat cruising in the water at night. Close up views of men standing on balconies of the boat. Group of men looking down from balconies. Banners read 'Ford Dealers, Sales and Service' and 'Welcome merit club members' on the boat. Paddle wheels visible turning in water, and rescue boats affixed at top of boat Crowd leaves the docked boat and several men in crowd are handing out newspapers to the men coming on shore.
The construction of Norris dam, Wheeler dam, houses for farmers and production of electricity in Tennessee, United States
The rehabilitation of the Tennessee valley in Tennessee, United States during the Great Depression. A crane picks the rubbles. A man operating a machine. Workers work during the construction of the Norris dam. A bucket filled with cement carried by crane. The water gushes through the gates of the dam. A worker operates a blasting machine. Explosions on mountains during the construction of the Wheeler dam. Activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) . The forest service people plant trees on hill side and on fields to restore the Tennessee valley. Animals graze on the land. Farm Security Administration (FSA) works at the construction of houses. Mules being used to plow fields. View of a dam. A man works on the power production machinery. He reads from the gauge. Gates of the dam opened and water starts flowing. An electrical tower and lines.
Various buildings of the university and Hale Woodruff teaches students at the Atlanta University in Georgia.
A study of African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A building of Atlanta University (Clark Atlanta University 223 James P Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States) in Atlanta, Georgia. Students, professors, and staff walk around the university campus. Harkness Hall at the university. Graves Hall and the Century Campus of Atlanta University. Hale Aspacio Woodruff, an African American artist, teaches students in a classroom. Paintings displayed in the background. African American women walking on the campus grounds.
One wrestler traps other's neck in ring ropes during Battle Royal championship at Lake Worth wrestling ring, Florida.
Gentle murder Florida-style displayed at Professional Wrestling match in Florida. A wrestling match during the Battle Royal championship at Lake Worth wrestling ring. Number of heavyweight wrestlers trying to overpower each other. The Undertaker presses neck of other wrestler against ropes of the ring and then traps the neck between two ropes. He tangles with the referee who rescues the other wrestler. He again goes further and traps the neck of the other wrestler between other ropes.
People get employment, development of canals, roads and airports under the WPA projects in Missouri, United States.
WPA Development works in Missouri, United States during the Great Depression. Smoke stacks of a factory under halt. Depressed and discouraged men in public places of Missouri. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, people work in agricultural farms and in factories. People lined outside a shop to purchase milk and eatables. Girls play in a park. A happy family. Streets paved in St. Louis and county roads surfaced. Gravel quarried by labors. The Joplin airport graded and surfaced by horse drawn rollers.