WPA Vocational Training

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WPA Vocational Training

Getchell, Maurice

1935

Hobbies," Thomson, Ga.

View of women working on various knitting projects during a vocational training course in Thomson, Georgia, which was sponsored or funded by the Works Progress Administration.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a federal agency created by executive order in 1935 that provided employment to United States citizens through public works projects and educational programs. Most expenditures went to the construction of highways, roads, parks, public buildings, dams, and sewers. Other programs included literacy projects, vocational education, historical records surveys, and the arts. The Works Progress Administration was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1937. Congress discontinued the agency in 1943.

Local identification number: VIS 77.58.03

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Gay Bolling Shepperson Photographs, Atlanta History Center

Vocational education--Georgia--Thomson

Women--1930-1940

Clothing and dress--1930-1940

Knitting--Georgia--Thomson

Hobbyists--Georgia--Thomson

Handicraft--Georgia--Thomson

United States. Works Progress Administration of Georgia

New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia

Digital Library of Georgia

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