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WPA rumor

Bock, Vera, artist between 1939 and 1941

Woman hammering a nail into aboard with spectators looking on

Not Identified, Robert Hemmig 1939

Will Neal playing fiddle being recorded by Todd and Sonkin

Robert Hemmig (photographer)
Kelley Stewart (glitcher) 1940
Glitched 10/9/2019

Wife of a homesteader with her WPA (Work Projects Administration) music class

Lee, Russell June 1940

Title: Two Negro children sitting at desk in school. Child in foreground is daughter of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer. Creek County, Oklahoma

Russell Lee February 1940

Thunder for the artillery

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer 1942

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating servomotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer 1942 June.

Service on the home front There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in these civilian defense efforts.

Louis Hirshman, artist Between 1941 and 1943

San Francisco, California. After forty-four years of Republican administration, California gets a Democratic administration. The California "New Deal" faces same opposition as the national "New Deal"

Lange, Dorothea, photographer January Of 1939

Preschool age girl painting at Walker Art Center: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Not provided circa 1941