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D651-1
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- 1936-02-26 (Creation)
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WPA men working on project in Point Defiance Park. About 20 workers shoveling dirt on the side of a hill. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), a relief measure established by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935, put millions back to work during the Depression years. Public projects included highway and street construction, bridge repair and construction, construction of public buildings and improving and building of parks. These men are hard at work in late February of 1936 at Tacoma's Point Defiance, which encompassed an area of around 700 acres. As seen by the shovels and wheelbarrows, nearly all of the work was done by hand. (T.Times).
Depressions--1929; Administrative agencies--Tacoma; Works Progress Administration (Tacoma); Laborers--Tacoma; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma);