![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://www.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
‘The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.’
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All images from the Library of Congress WPA Poster Collection
This capsule was curated by Stefan Lysiak
If it’s an “informal” study group why register?
And the silhouette woman in the Lakeview Terrace ad looks like a precursor to the naked lady silhouette featured on many mudflaps.
Clearly the more important question is why anyone thought that the government getting in the business of telling people how to live was a good idea. Hiking? I need a government poster telling me to take up hiking?
What a waste of decent talent.
Sorry, Monty. I totally disagree. Supporting artists and works of art while bringing healthy living to the attention of others is what I would prefer my taxes to support. Do you forget that people here were starving to death? You have to be alive and fed to use your talents.
Thank you, Miriam. You are 100% correct. The people the WPA put back to work not only put food on many tables, but saved this country from the Great Depression that the Right had caused in the Hoover Administration.
We need a program like this, now!
Stalinist.
And let’s remember that today that “informal study group” poster would be done by in all-text on a regular 8 1/2×11″ sheet of paper, likely as not in Comic Sans.
Hiking, Monty!? You have “let’s tear down solidly-built if overcrowded slums rather than fixing them up, and build the projects instead?” in front of you and you complain about hiking?