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Works Progress Administration (Art)

Art Presentation:
Elizabeth Catlett
Collective Relevance: The Art of Social Practice

Identification on verso (handwritten and stamped): N.Y.C. Art Project W.P.A., Photographic Division, 110 King Street, New York City.

Scholarly notes and reviews about current exhibitions on view at The Arts At Page Library Online Exhibition Space

Emancipation, a propaganda drawing depicting a female figure holding a scroll, surrounded by a male and a female slave, wrapped in the United States flag.

Employment and Activities poster for the Federal Art Project, presenting a breakdown of total employment based on statistics available November 1, 1936

This essay was originally written for a proposed report to Congress on the value of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). The proposed report, to be called "Art for the Millions," was never published and these essays by…

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) through a photography unit named - the Historical Section, documented the lives of African American Sharecroppers from 1935-1944 in Southeast Missouri.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)