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.
A man seated at a working table in the corner of a room. He works in the dim light of a table lamp placed on the desk.
A circular room with a huge globe placed in the middle of the room. Man on scaffolding working on walls. Murals on walls of the room and a man cleaning and placing the light bulbs in fixtures on the walls.
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.
Dearborn,Michigan. Workers operating machinery to press and assemble pieces of automobile chassis at the assembly line. View of workers operating heavy machinery and assembling chassis,loaded rail cars of chassis coming out and moving on railroad tracks, pulled by a large train with Ford logo on it. Workers at pressing machinery. Workers place large metal sheets under the pressing machines and then pull out completed pieces of car cabin sides, doors, and roofs.
Dearborn,Michigan. Workers affixing car frame to chassis at Ford River Rouge plant. Several workers assembling and welding. A worker wearing mask welds parts in and out of the car.
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