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Women winding yarn into balls, Topeka, Kansas. The women participated in a Works Progress Administration domestic science and foods project. Weaving looms are visible in the photograph.
Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration
Date: Between 1935 and 1943
Item Number: 210023
Call Number: JK.F WPA.1939c *89
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210023
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Works Progress Administration
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - New Deal
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Weaving
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs
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