Public Works Administration Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, 40 miles East of Portland Oregon’ 16 Oct. 1936
#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #dams #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers

#OTD in 1936
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‘Downstream view of construction operations of the northern half of the main dam at the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam, #ColumbiaRiver, Oregon
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#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #BonnevillDam

‘Steel Industry’ Howard Norton Cook. Mural. Buon fresco. 126 x 209 in. (320 x 530.9 cm). United States Post Office and Courthouse Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1936.
#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #HowardNortonCook #Pittsburgh

‘American Moose’ Boris Gilbertson. Marble relief. 66 x 156 in., 7500 lb. (167.6 x 396.2 cm, 3402 kg). Department of the of Interior Building, Washington DC. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1939.
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#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #BorisGilbertson

had been created. The director, artist #EdwardBrightBruce (1879-1943) had directed the temporary Public Works of Art Project (#PWAP) and also headed the Treasury Relief Art Project (#TRAP).
#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #GeorgeBiddle

#OTD in 1934
Housing Exhibition of the City of New York. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. October 15–November 7, 1934.
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‘Coinciding with America’s first large-scale public housing projects, part of #theNewDeal’s attempt to end the #GreatDepression through relief, recovery ➡️

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Mr Leatherman, homesteader, coming out of his dugout home, Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color transparency by #RussellLee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #colorphotography #farming #TheNewDeal

#AUTUMN at #Taos & the #PublicWorksOfArtProject (PWAP)
‘Fall in the Foothills’
W. Herbert Dunton (1878-1936)
Oil on canvas #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum (from the U.S. National Park Service) 1934
#AmericanArt #WHerbertDunton #TheNewDeal #PWAP #AmericanArt #autumncolors

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Harvesting corn, Pie Town, New Mexico’ Color transparency by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration. October 1940.
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #farming #farmers #corn #maize #RussellLee #colorphotography #TheNewDeal

Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. October 1940.
#blackandwhitephotography #MarionPostWolcott #CCC #CivilianConservationCorps #erosioncontrol #TheNewDeal #farming #farms #agriculture

In #OCTOBER 1936
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Music welcomes #HarryHopkins (1890-1946), chief architect of ##TheNewDeal work relief programs & head of the WPA, to the new WPA Arts center - also new home to the Albuquerque Little Theatre - designed by eminent architect John Gaw Meem IV (1894-1983), a ➡️

*Changing New York* series, #WPA #FederalArtProject. October 11, 1935.
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#Bronx #SpuytenDuyvil #houses #architecture #housedesign #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #BereniceAbbott #TheNewDeal

‘Public Works Administration. #USArmyCorpsOfEngineers. #Salverton #Missouri, Dams under construction, Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement. October 11, 1934.’
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#infrastructure #MississippiRiver #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal

#OTD in 1934
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‘U.S. Engineers. Mississippi River Lock #22. “P.W.A.” Contract #W741 Eng 1394. Main lock lower gate area. Placing concrete in sill. Lock #22, Saverton, Missouri, under construction.’
#infrastructure #MississippiRiver #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal

‘Lunch is prepared for the school children at Lake Dick.’ October 1938.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #school #education #LakeDick #Arkansas

‘Lake Dick School House also doubled as a Community Center.’ Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986). October 1938.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #school #education #LakeDick #Arkansas

to work for themselves. Here 3,453 acres had been purchased, and 80 houses, 6 community buildings and several farm support structures built, to create a cooperative farm community.
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#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #school #LakeDick #Arkansas

#OTD in 1934
#FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)
Distribution of clothing at 413 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, October 10, 1934
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#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal

‘Festival’ Daniel Celentano (New York 1902-1980). Oil on canvas. Public Works of Art Project. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor. 1934.
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#DanielCelentano #TheNewDeal #PWAP #AmericanArt

Changing New York series, #WPA #FederalArtProject October 9, 1935
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#TheNewDeal #Manhattan #UpperEastSide #QueensboroBridge #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #BereniceAbbott