WPA Vocational Training

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/723e6d004390a403dd27eaa631b9e570

Title

WPA Vocational Training

Creator

Getchell, Maurice

Date

1935

Description

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.

Subject

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

Source

Digital Library of Georgia

Relation

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do-th:geh_shepperson_398

Type

image

References

http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Shepperson/id/398

Subject

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

Citation

Getchell, Maurice, “WPA Vocational Training,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 13, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/26930.

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