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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 07 14 1936 |
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| Description: | Children assemble on the stairs of a WPA built cabin. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men in formation, probably the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1604, marching through the grounds of Fort Sheridan. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), probably Company 1604, in uniform and standing in formation, possibly at Fort Sheridan. |
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| Description: | Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), probably Company 1604, in uniform and in formation, possibly at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
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| Description: | Men lined up for mealtime at the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Camp at Devil's Lake State Park. The camp was reportedly opened in 1935 and closed in 19... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Four men are building the wall at Signal Point Lookout in Wyalusing State Park. They are part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project #8656-8. Th... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro... |
| Date: | 03 11 1936 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man is inspecting a construction of logs and branches, stacked neatly and tied with ropes. He is standing on ice on a cleared area of a sno... |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th... |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed women are posing next to an automobile parked near the arbor-like gate at the entrance to the Council Grounds State Forest, now the Counci... |
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| Description: | Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch... |
| Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families.... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The designs for draperies and wall hangings are cut into linoleum and backed with heavy ply-wood". |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The material to be printed is stretched over a padded table". Another woman is working at a table in the background. |
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