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| Image © 2009, D. Ross Cameron/BANG-East Bay || Traffic streaks along State Highway 24 and through the Caldecott Tunnel, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 in Berkeley, Calif. The tunnel is one of many Bay Area structures built during the Great Depression under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. |
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D. Ross Cameron: Staff Photographer: BANG-East Bay
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On March 4, 1933, newly-elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated into office in the midst of the worst economic downturn in American history -- The Great Depression.
At a time when one in four American men was out of work, Roosevelt's administration set out on an ambitious course to create much-needed infrastructure for a country that was still largely agrarian, provide jobs, and get money circulating again through the American economy. The Works Progress Administration, or WPA, was one of those New Deal agencies, and its projects continued through the conclusion of World War II.
Seven decades later, as the world suffers through a recession as bad as any since 1945, President Barack H. Obama says he'd like to set forth a modern day model of FDR's economic stimulus package.
Which got me to thinking about, and wanting to document, the people and the things they produced in FDR's era.
An ongoing project.
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"Works Progress Administration"
Traffic streaks along State Highway 24 and through the Caldecott Tunnel, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 in Be... |
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"Works Progress Administration"
An unidentified man walks along the colonnade near Lake Merritt, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 in Oakland, ... |
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"Works Progress Administration"
John Guadagna of Hayward, Calif., 95, recalls his year-and-half stint with the Civilian Conservation... |
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"Works Progress Administration"
Cyclists take in a spectacular view of the San Francisco cityscape as they zip along Skyline Bouleva... |
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"Works Progress Administration"
California College of the Arts student Kaitlin Satterfield sketches some of the creatures inhabiting... |
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Young boys play on the splashway at Joaquin Miller Park, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 in Oakland, Calif. Jo... |
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Youngsters get their swim lessons at the Plunge in Hayward, Calif., one of many Bay Area structures ... |
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"Works Progress Administration"
Former Civilian Conservation Corps worker Archie Green talks about his time with the New Deal agency... |
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Detail from a column of the Pulgas Water Temple in Redwood City, Calif, one of many Bay Area structu... |
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The Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, seen here at dusk on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 i... |
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