Item no. 24001
| 1935 |
| New York |
| Occupation: Building and construction trades |
| Collection: New York Public Library |
Works Progress Administration strikers outside Astor low cost housing project at First Street and Avenue A, New York City. The WPA and its companion project the Public Works Administration were major instruments of the Roosevelt New Deal to provide jobs for the millions left unemployed by the Great Depression.
Image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
See this image in the Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives exhibit.
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