WPA

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/21/2020
  

  Searching for America's 1930s Post Office Murals: A Photoessay

  Photographer Justin Hamel is about a quarter of the way to photographing 1,200 New Deal-era murals in post offices across the United States.

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• SOURCE: artdaily
  8/12/2020
  

  A Black Nurse Saved Lives. Today She May Save Art

  Graduate student Laura Voisin George discovered an image of Biddy Mason, a Black woman born in slavery who became a founding figure in Los Angeles's African American history, in a set of WPA murals in an auditorium at the University of California-San Francisco. The discovery may help preserve the murals. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  7/29/2020
  

  Once Upon a Time, When America Paid Its Writers

  In Jason Boog’s new book, "The Deep End," he offers colorful and often grim profiles of nine Depression-era writers and connects their stories to the struggles that writers face today. Even before our current economic crisis, it was a depressingly apt comparison.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  7/22/2020
  

  A Job Guarantee Costs Far Less Than Unemployment

  The bold policy for not just weathering the crisis, but coming out better.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/9/2020
  

  What The Depression-Era Works Progress Administration Can Teach Us About The Arts During A Crisis

  During the Great Depression, art became a part of people's everyday lives, notes art historian Jody Patterson.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/29/2020
  

  Following Dorothea Lange's Notebooks

  by Tess Taylor

  As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange’s images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California’s present.