American Modernism The Works Progress of America, the WPA, in 1935. As part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, the federal government created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935. Direct relief for the unemployed was replaced by work opportunities, and billions of dollars were inserted into the economy as an average of more than two million workers were paid from fifteen to ninety dollars per month from 1935 until 1941.
Poster,Lester Beall,1930s
Spread from the June 1938 issue of Bazaar, Alexey Brodovitch