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Post office mural, Forest parkway, 11421
Mural commissioned by the Works Progress Administration
Artists were one of the groups most affected by the Great Depression as no one had the money to buy the artists works, or commission the artists for specific works. The Works Progress…
Artists were one of the groups most affected by the Great Depression as no one had the money to buy the artists works, or commission the artists for specific works. The Works Progress…
Progress and poverty - a decoration day study
Print shows waves of veterans marching through a memorial arch on "Decoration Day", carrying banners that state "We will continue to save the country, so long as there is a dollar in the Treasury" and "Army of Pensioners". On the right, Uncle Sam…
July Morning, Emil Armin, 1940, Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
July Morning, Emil Armin, 1940, WPA, screenprint printed in brown ink on wove paper, 11 × 14 inches. Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Art work commissioned by the Works Progress…
Art work commissioned by the Works Progress…
River and Clouds, Emil Armin, 1941, Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
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…
Made at the beginning of World War…
Work Progress Administration Arts and Crafts Display Kansas USA
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…
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…
The tournament of today - a set-to between labor and monopoly
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…
Postcard from Ehrich Weiss to his mother
At the age of twelve, Ehrich Weiss ran away from home in an effort to earn money and to alleviate his family's grinding poverty. This is the earliest sample of Houdini's handwriting in the collections of the Library of Congress and it is supplemented…
Democracy's opportunity
Print shows a man labeled "Republican War Record" standing in a pond labeled "Republican Corruption Water", yelling to an Irishman wearing a hat labeled "Democracy", gathering up the Republican's clothing labeled "Tariff Reform, Free Canal, [and]…
New York's Republican "standard-bearer"
Print shows Levi P. Morton with cane, holding a "Check Book", and his left arm around a standard that states "Down with the Iniquitous Democratic Party!! It has the Impudence to Tax Prosperity Instead of Poverty!!", and Thomas C. Platt who has his…
"All aboard for the millennium!"
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…