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Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression
Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).
African Americans swim at a pool constructed through Works Progress Administration in United States
African Americans swim in a pool constructed through Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. Children play and enjoy on various swings at children's park.
African American children at a nursery school in United States during Great Depression
African American children at a nursery school in the United States during the Great Depression. They play, eat, sleep and undergo medical check ups. Adult African American citizens learn to read and write. African American men and women in Harlem New York attend a Spanish language class. Many African American citizens get employed through Works Progress Administration (WPA) and are seen performing land record indexing jobs, filing, and typing with typewriters.
African American women under go household training, health care training under Works Progress Administration in United States
African American girls learn household chores at a household training institute set up by Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. African American women making pastries inside a kitchen. A woman cuts a dough with a diamond-shaped cookie cutter. She coats the cookie with butter. An instructor watches the woman bake cookies. Black woman prepares a salad. Another woman takes a tray of muffins out of the oven. Two African American women turns a mattress over. They make a bed together. An African American nurse demonstrates using a dummy. The nurse massages the baby dummy’s legs. African American nursing students demonstrates with a patient. They put a patient to bed and serve food. They also undergo health care training and learn first aid, child and sick person care. African American and White women sewing together during a class. An African American woman helps a White man put clothes into a bin. A Black woman wearing glasses sewing a dress.
Unemployed get work under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.
A zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
People enter a zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. People look at the ducks in a pond and chimpanzees eating ice cream. Men and women painters work to paint a large mural on a theatre stage or band shell. It depicts a Native American Indian Chief in a long white robe.
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