The Way We Worked

WPA Men at Work

This 1936 photograph shows Works Progress Administration (WPA) laborers building a fence at the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge—now the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge—in North Dakota. The WPA was a New Deal agency created in 1935 to hire workers for federal public works projects. Some of the projects supported infrastructure, such as public buildings, bridges and roads. Workers from the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps, another New Deal agency, built and expanded nearly half of the National Wildlife Refuge System’s stations in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska in the late 1930s until the programs were discontinued in the early 1940s.

PHOTO from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, courtesy of Meg Van Ness, Regional Historic Preservation Officer, FWS, in collaboration with the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG), bringing together government professionals, academics, consultants, students and citizens interested in understanding federal history work and the historical development of the federal government. To join, visit www.shfg.org. DID YOU KNOW?

The Works Progress Administration employed more than 8.5 million people on 1.4 million public projects during the Great Depression.

Learn more at www.narfe.org/ wpa-history.

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