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River and Clouds, Emil Armin, 1941, WPA, screenprint printed in brown ink on wove paper, 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches. Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Made at the beginning of World War…

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…

Works Progress Administration: display of arts and crafts projects in Kansas

The Works Progress Administration taught crafts to those involved in the program. The Administration was also dedicated to preserving the history of the United States of…

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…

A woman protesting the treatment of women who are suffrage prisoners. 4.25 x 7 in. 1917. This was taken the year before World War I ended. This shows the treatment of the women who wanted their suffrage, they were treated as if they were criminals…

Women are burning a speech by President Wilson to protest his stance on women's suffrage. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1918. World War I is almost over, and in two years the Nineteenth Amendment will be ratified giving women the right to…

Women holding senators accountable for keeping women from voting. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will enter it soon. Women will receive suffrage in three years. Women are not only fighting…

Women arrested for wanting to vote are released from prison. 4 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will do so later that year. Women were arrested because they wanted to vote, one of the women in…

The women's rights movement was perceived to be strong in 1913. Halftone photomechanical print. 1913. World War I would begin for the rest of the world in two years, and in seven years women would receive the right to vote from the ratification of…

Political Cartoon from a magazine, 9045 x 6003, digitized version of a drawing in a magazine, February 20, 1915,
World War I was starting on the other side of the world, but America would not join until later. There was a referendum on a suffrage…