Fishermen's Village

By Edmund Lewandowski, Wisconsin Federal Art Project, WPA, 1937

Watercolor and gouache over pencil

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Records Administration

 

"Church in shacktown community. It is used by different sects, including Pentecostal.

The curtains are made of flour sacks. . . . Near Modesto, Stanislaus County, California,

May 10, 1940"

By Dorothea Lange, Bureau of Agricultural Economics

National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics

 

 

The Riveter

By Ben Shahn, Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1938

Tempera on paperboard

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian

 

 

 

Waiting for the Mail

By Grant Wright Christian, Treasury Relief Art Project, 1937 38

Oil on canvas

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, transfer from General

Services Administration

 

These Are Our Lives

North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia Federal Writers' Project, 1939

National Archives, Records of the Work Project Administration

 

 

Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd recording a fiddler at a Farm Security Camp in

California

By Robert Hemmig, 1940-41

 

 

"C.C.C. A Young Man's Opportunity for Work Play Study & Health"

By Albert Bender, Chicago Federal Art Project, WPA, ca. 1935

Silkscreen

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

 

By Wilfred J. Mead, Civilian Conservation Corps, undated

National Archives, Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps