Thursday, April 26, 2018

National Youth Administration Carpentry: 4 million pieces of furniture made or repaired, 52 million board feet of lumber produced, 324 thousand cords of firewood cut

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Above: National Youth Administration (NYA) workers on a carpentry project in Washington, D.C., ca. 1935-1943. NYA workers made or repair...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

New Deal Art: "Sandy Acre"

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Above: "Sandy Acre," a watercolor artwork by Amy Jones (1899-1992), created while she was in the New Deal's Section of Fin...
Monday, April 16, 2018

The National Youth Administration: 130,000 cars, trucks, and tractors repaired

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Above: A city mechanic (standing on the vehicle's running board) helps train James DeSoto, an enrollee in the New Deal's Nationa...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

New Deal Celestial Art (5/5): "The Comet" and "The Big Dipper"

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Above: "The Comet," a linoleum artwork by Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982), created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1943. Hagedor...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018

New Deal Celestial Art (4/5): The lunar and solar art of George Harding

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The following three artworks are located in the U.S. Custom House in Philadelphia. They were painted by George Harding (1883-1959), wh...
Friday, April 6, 2018

New Deal Celestial Art (3/5): "The Drama of the Heavens" and "Gazing at the Stars"

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Above: "The Drama of the Heavens," a WPA poster created in 1939. There was a planetarium construction craze in the United Stat...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

New Deal Celestial Art (2/5): "Constellation"

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Above: "Constellation," an artwork by Georg Redlich (1918 or 1919, to 1941), created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1941....
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