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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…

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…

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) 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

The…

Illustration shows children and teenagers gathered on and around a wagon in a dilapidated alley. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal…

Illustration shows boys rummaging through a sleeping man's pockets. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences among the poor…

Illustration shows emaciated, wounded boy standing next to barrel. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences among the poor in…

Illustration shows two boys sleeping huddled together next to barrel.

The image shows the living conditions of those who live on the street. It would have been better to stick together for children than to be alone. Children were homeless and…

Print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled "Monopoly" over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled "Arrogance", and carrying a shield labeled "Corruption of the Legislature" and a lance labeled…

Print shows "Captain Bill McKinley" standing at the bow of a steamboat labeled "High Protection" and "Monopoly & Co. builders" that has been patched in several places, listing to the stern, and is overloaded with passengers; Mark A. Hanna is standing…