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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

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National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center cornerstone. Now Woodstock School of Art. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America.

Leaving a…

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a…

The National Youth Administration built the National Parks and some buildings. The buildings typically needed to be built anyway, but the government did not have the manpower or money to hire some to build them. The Works Progress Administration, or…

The First Lady visiting would have provided publicity for the National Youth Administration, but it also would have provided a morale boost for those in the program at the site.

Scope and content: Los Angeles, California. Aircraft Schools. Correspondence from the National Youth Administration offices in Arizona, Washington and Iowa answering queries from the California National Youth Administration office on the extent of…

Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Administration (NYA) work center, is contributing to defense as the result of skill acquired on the government project. Scene from Women in Defense, Office of War Information (OWI)…