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Featured  Source     Source  B:  Image  bank:  New  Deal  Public  Works  Administration  projects  
 

Public  Works  Administration  

 
The  Public  Works  Administration  was  created  in  response  to  the  Great  Depression  and  lasted  from  1933  to  1943.  It  
led  to  numerous  construction  projects  throughout  the  country,  culminating  in  hundreds  of  new  dams,  bridges,  
hospitals,  and  schools.  
 

 
 
Image  1:  Photographer  unknown,  photograph  of  workers  building  a  dam  on  the  Mississippi  River,  “U.S.  Engineers.  
Mississippi  River  Lock  #18,”  November  16,  1934.  
 
Public  domain.  Available  at  the  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  Presidential  Library  &  Museum  website:  
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=3057.    
 
 
 
 
 

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Civilian  Conservation  Corps  
 
The  Civilian  Conservation  Corps  was  created  in  response  to  the  Great  Depression  and  lasted  from  1933  to  1942.  It  
hired  about  3  million  young  men  as  unskilled  laborers  working  to  conserve  and  develop  natural  resources.  Projects  
included  planting  trees  and  building  state  parks.  
 

 
 
Image  2:  Photographer  unknown,  photograph  of  Company  2771  Civilian  Conservation  Corps  camp  on  the  east  bank  
of  the  Little  Missouri  River  just  south  of  Jones  Creek,  which  they  occupied  from  1939  to  1941,  “Jones  Creek  CCC  
Camp,”  no  date.  
 
Public  domain.  National  Park  Service,  http://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=026B2B3B-­‐155D-­‐4519-­‐3EB8C73325EC3B8E.  
   

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Federal  Writers’  Project  

 
The  Federal  Writers’  Project  was  a  New  Deal  project  established  in  1935  that  employed  more  than  6,000  writers,  
artists,  historians,  researchers,  and  social  scientists  to  create  academic,  cultural,  and  artistic  projects  for  public  use.  
One  of  those  projects  involved  an  effort  to  collect  interviews  and  write  narratives  about  the  lives  of  formerly  
enslaved  persons.  This  photograph  depicts  the  efforts  of  government  employees  to  record  spirituals  being  sung  by  
formerly  enslaved  persons  in  Petersburg,  Virginia.    
 
 

 
 
Image  3:  Photographer  unknown,  photograph  of  a  recording  of  an  African  American  spiritual,  “Recording  Spirituals  
Sung  by  Ex-­‐slaves,  Petersburg,”  no  date.  
 
Reprinted  with  permission  from  the  Library  of  Virginia.  http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/newdeal/slavenar.htm.    

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