Works Progress Administration

Dibubarkan30 Juni 1943Kantor pusatKota New York, NY, Amerika SerikatPegawai8.5 juta 1935–1943
3.3 juta November 1938 (peak)Anggaran tahunan$1.3 billion (1935)Dasar hukum

Works Progress Administration (WPA; berganti nama pada tahun 1939 menjadi Work Projects Administration) adalah agensi Kesepakatan Baru Amerika Serikat yang mempekerjakan jutaan pencari kerja (kebanyakan laki-laki yang tidak berpendidikan formal) untuk melaksanakan proyek pekerjaan umum,^[1] termasuk pembangunan gedung-gedung publik dan jalan. Didirikan pada tanggal 6 Mei 1935, atas perintah presiden, sebagai bagian penting dari Kesepakatan Baru Kedua.

Referensi

Pranala luar

• WPA Oral Histories at George Mason University

• Footage of the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 "Voodoo Macbeth" – with informative annotations.
• The Great Depression in Washington State Project, including an illustrated map of major WPA projects and a multimedia history of the Federal Theater Project in the State.
• The Index of American Design at the National Gallery of Art
• Karya Works Progress Administration di Project Gutenberg
• Karya oleh/tentang Works Progress Administration di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Karya Works Progress Administration di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Guide to the WPA Oregon Federal Art Project collection at the University of Oregon
• WPA inspired Gulf Coast Civic Works Project
• Living New Deal Project – The Living New Deal Project documents the living legacy of New Deal agencies, including the WPA. The Living New Deal website includes an extensive digital map featuring detailed information about specific WPA projects by location.
• New Deal Agencies: The Works Progress Administration
• Soul of a People documentary on Smithsonian Networks
• Works Progress Administration Tampa Office Records at the University of South Florida
• Arizona Archives Online Finding Aid – The Arizona State Museum Library & Archives holds the records of the WPA Statewide Archaeological Project (1938–1940) and are found on AAO.
• WPA Art Inventory Project at the Connecticut State Library
• WPA Omaha, Nebraska City Guide Project by the University of Nebraska Omaha Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library.
• WPA publications from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center
• Tapestries at A History of Central Florida Podcast
• WPA digital collection at the New York Public Library
• WPA Music Manuscripts at Wayne State University Library is a digitization project that contains 174 images of WPA music copies from 1935 to 1943.
• United States Work Projects Administration Polar Bibliography at Dartmouth College Library
• Work Projects Administration in Maryland records at the University of Maryland libraries
• Collection: "Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA" from the University of Michigan Museum of Art

WPA posters:

• Posters from the WPA at the Library of Congress

Libraries and the WPA:

• The WPA Library Project in South Carolina
• South Carolina Public Library History, 1930–1945
• WPA Children's Books (1935–1943) Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book

WPA murals:

• Database of WPA murals
• WPA-FAP Mural Division in NYC, and restoration of murals at the Williamsburg Houses and Hospital for Chronic Diseases on Welfare Island
• WPA mural projects by noted muralist Sr. Lucia Wiley
• WPA Artist Louis Schanker
• WPA Artist Robert Tabor