The Works Progress Administration provided jobs to 8.5 million Americans between 1935 and 1943 during the Great Depression and the first years of World War II. Jobs ranged from graveling city streets ...

Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the history archives of Naper Settlement. With the hot summer days approaching, there’s no better way to cool ...

WPA put unemployed people to work at useful public projects, gave them paycheck. Thomas Domboski stands near the Toby Creek ponding area just off Union Street in Luzerne, a WPA project from the 1930s ...

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