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This sepia colored photograph shows a WPA sewing class in Topeka, Kansas. The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Works Projects Administration, was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to generate jobs and income for the unemployed. This relief program provided employment through a number of community works projects and vocational training for unskilled workers.
Date: September 8, 1936
Item Number: 214764
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.78 *30
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214764
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1930s - 1935
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
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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