Wednesday, December 30, 2020

New Deal Art: "Spillway, Ashokan Dam"

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Above: "Spillway, Ashokan Dam," an oil painting by Arnold Wiltz (1889-1937), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Wo...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

An American Indian Woman in the CCC, her U.S. Marine brother, and today's Burdette Hall building

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Above: Dorothy Burdette, 19-year-old Apache woman and office worker in the Civilian Conservation Corps - Indian Division, San Carlos Reserv...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Actress Peggy Jennison and the WPA play "Dragon's Wishbone"

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Above: A WPA poster, advertising the WPA production of Dragon's Wishbone . This children's play was written by Joan and Michael Sla...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

New Deal Art: "Ten Cent Movie"

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Above: "Ten Cent Movie," a watercolor painting by Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), created while he was in the WPA, 1939. Image courte...
Monday, November 2, 2020

New Deal Art: "Cement Mixer"

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Above: "Cement Mixer," a color lithograph by Jacob Kainen (1909-2001), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project,...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The WPA's spectacular Pinocchio, and its triumphant 1950 revival

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Above: This is one of several photographs that appeared in the March 27, 1939 edition of LIFE magazine. It shows a scene from the WPA'...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Forgotten New Dealer Florence Kerr, her recollection of Harry Hopkins, and her thoughts on the WPA and civilization

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Above: Florence Kerr, right, 1935. Photo by the Minneapolis Star, provided courtesy of Newspapers.com, and used here for educational, non-c...