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.

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).

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Unlike the original WPA, which wrote checks directly to employees, the new bill is set up so that 90 percent of the projects will be privately run by corporations or nonprofits, who will send in ...

I have been fiercely opposed to the missile defense project, but I’ve decided to cool my anger. It’s clear to me that it will never work. Meanwhile, the billions used to develop it should be ...

You do remember the Works Progress Administration, right? It was FDR’s plan that put millions of unemployed Americans to work building public projects like roads, water mains, firehouses and ...

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 ...