A photograph showing a public highway being prepared for surfacing near Lawrence, Kansas. This project was administered by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee with funds from the Emergency Relief Administration. During the Depression when people could not find employment, both Kansas and the Federal government preferred the use of work relief over direct subsistence payments. The workers paid by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee built public structures, lakes, planted shelterbelts, and made road improvements. The photograph was copied from Public Welfare Service In Kansas, 1934.