The “Transportation” mural, created by William E. Henning as a WPA project during the Great Depression and restored in 2011, is displayed June 14 at Harrison Elementary in northwest Cedar Rapids.

WPA sewing project employees worked at top speed to provide warm clothing and bedding. The 550 seamstresses, who were stationed in the Women’s Building at the fairgrounds, turned out 300 ...

Construction started in 1935, one of the first WPA projects in the region. The tower served as an observation post for the U.S. Navy during World War II. It was repaired in the 1970s.

Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project, by Francis V. O'Connor, editor (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973).

the unsuspecting wpa project is one that we'll be passing under which is the calumet bridge which as you see from the top just runs around high school and looks very much like a nice bridge, ...

In 1936, another WPA project, this one costing $45,000, was needed. Swimming water was pumped out and the walls were cleaned. An 87-foot-long dam from the high-dive stand across to the opposite ...

During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created his New Deal Program.It comprised a number of works projects to get people working again including the Works Progress ...

It comprised a number of works projects to get people working again including the Works Progress Administration (WPA), renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration.