New Deal of the Day
Periodic posts about the most interesting time in American history: The New Deal!
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
The New Deal and the Alaska Highway
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Above: A worker uses a bulldozer and scraper on the Alaska Highway, 1942. Equipment from the Civilian Conservation Corps was used to con...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The New Deal improved public health in Puerto Rico
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Above: A new health clinic in Puerto Rico, ca. 1940. Photo by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), from the PRRA / WPA ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Eleanor, Puerto Rico: A New Deal Town
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Above: The Eleanor Housing Development in Puerto Rico, ca. 1940. The town was constructed by the New Deal's Puerto Rico Reconstructi...
Sunday, May 10, 2020
A New Deal hospital for Alabama
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Above: The Peoples Hospital, in Jasper, Alabama, 1938. The construction of this hospital was started by the Civil Works Administration (...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
New Deal happenings in Napa County
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Above: The Napa County Fairgrounds. In 1940, it was reported that "The Napa County NYA, under the direction of Frank Kadish, has pl...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
California's New Deal Prunes
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Above: The caption for this 1938 photograph reads, "Drying prunes of small California farm. Family labor. Sonoma County, California...
Sunday, April 26, 2020
WPA art, music, dance, and body-building classes in Berkeley, California
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Above: This building, at Telegraph Avenue and Channing Way, Berkeley, California, used to be the location of Maxwell Hardware store (occ...
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