An instructor guides her students to use waste tin box in their craft class. She cuts away the base of the box and lays the tin flat. The tin sheet is hit with a nail. The tin sheet gets scratched, due to which a pattern is created between these scratches. A duck is carved on tin.
Student cuts, saws and nails wood at a carpentry class. An instructor guides one of her students to fix the tail of a wooden dog
A simple wooden hut home with tin roof in rural Kentucky. Two boys bring buckets into the hut. A woman sits at a table and peels potatoes. One of the boys help her in preparing vegetables and adding them to a cooking pot. A boy in overalls adds coal or other fuel to a stove fire. (World War II period).
A man prints few papers on the printing machine. "ON OUR WAY" is printed on top of the paper. The print, dated 6th June 1942, belongs to Pine Mountain Guidance Institute.
Works Progress Administration helps musicians to find jobs in their field during the Great Depression. Opening scene shows orchestra performing in concert at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater (2700 Broadway St, Toledo, OH 43609, United States) in Toledo, Ohio. Next, an African American gospel choir gathers around a piano and sings the spiritual "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" led by their female conductor, the famed Blues singer Juanita Hall.
Many people are drawing and painting near the bank of a river. A theater backdrop is being painted by artists, depicting a Native American Indian chief in a long white robe in front of a closed hatch. Students entering the mess hall at West Point. Wall of the mess hall of West Point Military Academy covered by mural painting depicting warriors of various times, a project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression. Students move towards entrance of a building. Final refining touch is given to a work of stained glass. Men and women artists working on sculptures in an art class or studio. Two men do a work of restoration at a museum. A man and a woman prepare fossil and animal skeletons for a museum exhibit.
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