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New Deal Road Work
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CWA road crew leveling a grade on a county road near Westfield. The CWA undertook many road and utility projects during the Great Depression in order to provide relief for out of work men. Such projects were sometimes referred to as "make work," but it is certainly clear from the absence of power equipment that the projects were clearly "work."
February 27, 1934
Fenner, Jacob, Westfield, Wisconsin
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Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project
1934
A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933 to April 1934 and put 4,000,000 Americans...
Cranberry Cleaning Machine
September 1934
Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
Man Burning Beehives
April 1934
Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood.
Sewer Shoveling
1935
As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
Filling Potholes
April 27, 1987
A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather.
