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Title: New Deal
Description: Information on the New Deal plan designed to stimulate employment and the economy during the Great Depression of the 1930s, including parts on the Relief Program, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, and Works Projects Administration. Listings of various WPA projects done in Kansas City and this area are included in the clippings found in this file.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Adult Education
Description: File containing a paper on the 1930s adult education program in Kansas City (written by Florannah Welsh), started in 1934 by the Kansas City School District for foreign born parents of Kansas City students and taken over in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Adults and children pose in a classroom. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 English-Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June 9-38 Plate - 1839." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Adults and children pose in a classroom. Some of the men are holding guitars. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 English - Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June-9-38 Okate -1838." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Works Progress Administration Education Group
Description: Women and girls pose in a workroom with quilts and clothes on display. The caption reads, "Adult Education O.P. 465 -55-3-116 W.P. 5158 Sewing - Guadalupe Center Kansas City MO. June 9-38 Plate - 1837." A Works Progress Administration (WPA) sign is visible in foreground.
Date: 1938-06-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Springs High School Construction Site
Description: View of unidentified men at construction site of a WPA addition to Blue Springs High School.
Date: 1938-01-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road near Lexington, Missouri
Description: View along road south of Lexington, Missouri, probably paved with crushed rock as part of a WPA work project.
Date: 1938-11-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brown's Lake Dam Area
Description: View of WPA dam construction site and nearby area at Brown's Lake, southwest of Odessa, Missouri.
Date: 1938-10-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brown's Lake Dam
Description: View of WPA dam construction site at Brown's Lake, southwest of Odessa, Missouri.
Date: 1938-10-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Springs High School Addition
Description: View of completed WPA addition to Blue Springs High School.
Date: 1938-07-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road Paving Project
Description: View of a WPA road paving project in Independence, Missouri, near the intersection of Fuller and College.
Date: 1939-11-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road Paving Project
Description: Unidentified men working on a WPA road paving project in Independence, Missouri, near the intersection of Chrysler Avenue and Maple.
Date: 1939-11-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Springs High School Construction Site
Description: View of unidentified men at construction site of a WPA addition to Blue Springs High School.
Date: 1938-02-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Springs High School Gymnasium
Description: Interior view of the nearly completed gymnasium in a WPA addition to Blue Springs High School.
Date: 1938-07-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Blue Springs High School Gymnasium
Description: Interior view of the nearly completed gymnasium in a WPA addition to Blue Springs High School.
Date: 1938-07-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brown's Lake Dam Construction
Description: View of WPA dam construction site at Brown's Lake, southwest of Odessa, Missouri.
Date: 1938-10-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quarry Workers and Machinery
Description: View of men and machinery at the WPA rock quarry and crushing operation near Higginsville, Missouri.
Date: 1938-11-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: County Road
Description: View of a road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
Date: 1939-03-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road Paving Project
Description: Unidentified men working on a WPA road paving project in Independence, Missouri; view looking north on Fuller Avenue.
Date: 1939-11-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: County Road and Residences
Description: View of residences and road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
Date: 1939-03-28
Object Type: Photograph

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