Above: A WPA-built retaining wall, at a cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, ca. 1936, constructed to prevent the loss of grave sites due to erosion problems. All across America, WPA workers repaired and improved cemeteries, and also recorded & inventoried headstone inscriptions. Photo courtesy of the National Archives.
Above: "God's Acre," a painting by Julian Levi (1900-1982), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, ca. 1935-1939. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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