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 ➡️

#ErnestHamlinBaker's portrait of #HarryHopkins appeared on the cover of Time as #FDR began his 4th term.
‘Known for the 391 “journalistic portraits” he created for Time magazine from 1939 to 1956 & the thirteen Fortune magazine covers that led to his work for Time, [Baker] was ➡️

#OTD in 1938
#FranklinDRoosevelt & #WPA Administrator, now Sec. of Commerce, & longtime advisor #HarryHopkins in the back seat of an automobile in #Rochester, #Minnesota, after visiting son James Roosevelt in hospital. #FDR arrived in Rochester Sept. 11, 1938, leaving Sept. 14.