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• CCC Workers, Works Progress Administration (WPA) men work on an Arkansas River flood control project May 17, 1939. (external site)

Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho, Salmon National Forest: Camp F-167, "CCC boys... ready to transplant Beaver from a ranch location where they were damaging crops to a Forest watershed location where they will help to conserve the water supply..." 1938, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives.

FSA; CCC; "CCC boys at work"; Prince George Co., V.A., date unknown, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

WPA:Federal Theater Project:Children's Theater Unit:theater class for children, 1935, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Harry Hopkins at WPA Arts Museum in New Mexico, 1936, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

WPA Federal Theater Project in New York:Dance Theater:"Young Tramps," 1935, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Public Works Administration Project, Army Corps of Engineers, Lock #16, Muscatine Iowa, Dams under construction, Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement, 1934, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Federal Emergency Relief Administration: FERA camps for unemployed women in Arcola, Pennsylvania; "Second Camp," 1934, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

WPA: unemployed shown at volunteers of America Soup Kitchen: Washington, D.C., 1936, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Tennessee Valley Authority Douglas Dam on the French Broad River: drilling a blast hole with a jackhammer, 1942, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris Dam, Tennessee, " The force of falling water becomes electric power at Norris Dam. TVA Engineers raised the 14 foot steel drum gates atop this spillway in January 1937 to prevent water from reaching the already swollen Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, 1937, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

WPA: Indianapollis, Indiana "Flood Control," date unknown, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

CCC enrollee planting tree, 1933, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Farm Security Administration: FSA county supervisor discussing farm plan with rehabilitation client, 1939, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

Farmers receive their benefit checks, Kaufman County, Texas, 1934, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives

[Tuskeegee, Alabama.] Photographer unknown. Photograph, 1936. Courtesy of the National Archives. (69 MP-56-1, box 5).

• May Day – Child Health Day 1939. By F. Luis Mora, Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, 1939. Photolithograph. National Archives, Publications of the U.S. Government. (287-P-L5.14:M45 939) (external site reproduction - HTML)

Public School Art, Sioux City Art Center, 1939. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, [Reproduction number,LC-USZC2-868 DLC]

See America: Welcome to Montana [between 1936 and 1938]. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, [Reproduction number, LC-USZC2-850 DLC]

Can you stop? – Speed and stopping distance/Iowa State Safety Council

Don’t kill our wildlife [between 1936 and 1940]. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, [Reproduction number,LC-USZC2-5254 DLC]

• Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State, 1938 (external site reproduction - HTML)