#wpa

[ehghtyseven]

I met disco today…

he is very cute and very soft and his feet make a most excellent sound when he runs across the floor 😍

#wendy rambles #wpa #actual penguin disco #<333 #also saw sidney the penguin later on #out in their enclosure #he was very concerned with grooming bette #lol

[nemfrog]

Solar system. Dream of stars. 1940.

Internet Archive

#astronomy #diagram #solar system #planets #distance from the sun #processed image #black background #saturn #jupiter #orbits #nemfrog #writers project #wpa #1940 #1940s

[gameraboy2]

"Don't Mix 'Em" by Robert Lachenmann, 1936

#poster #poster art #psa #Robert Lachenmann #1936 #1930s #vintage #wpa #art #illustration #skull #drunk driving #drink and drive #whiskey #gas

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rex Ingram as Jean Christophe in Haiti, by William DuBois, as a tempestuous liberated slave who led the people of Haiti in revolt and defied Napoleon Bonaparte.

The play opened at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem, March 2, 1938 and transferred to Daly's Theater on West 63rd St. on July 11. It ran until Sept. 24 (168 performances). It has been described as a "melodramatic recounting of the 1802 uprising, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, that Orson Welles used as a basis for his now-famous Voodoo Macbeth, but Haiti depicts the actual events that transpired to give the Haitians back their country and rule."

It was a production by the Federal Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Times's critic Brooks Atkinson called Ingram's performance "gusty" and noted, "Mr. Ingram has been a good actor for a long time. It is not very often, however, that he finds a heroic part like that of Christophe, the leader of a cause. Massive inside a gaudy uniform, active as a pole-vaulter, and gleaming with sincerity, Mr. Ingram gives a rattling good performance." He also noted, "What with one thing and another, there is enough history in Haiti to make it socially respectable."

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Rex Ingram #WPA #Works Progress Admin. #vintage theater #Federal Theater Project #William DuBois #1930s theater #vintage Broadway #political theater

[kafkasapartment]

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism, Mid 20th Century Architectural, 1930. Ernest Fiene. Oil on canvas.

#art #painting #architecture #peinture #pintura #pittura #malerei #1930s #wpa #city scene

[whatevergreen]

'Construction Workers, Solidarity in Action,' 1940, Emmanuel Romano

#Emmanuel Romano #artists #art #solidarity #workers #40s #wpa

[uwmspeccoll]

Old Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 1900

Wisconsin architect and printmaker Charles Clark Reynolds (1893-1969) produced this etching of the Door County port city of Sturgeon Bay for the Federal Art Project of the WPA in 1941. Reynolds, who was born in Sturgeon Bay, ran a successful architectural firm with offices in Manitowoc and Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1920-1934. Andrew Stevens, curator emeritus of prints, drawings and photographs at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made these observations about another copy of the print at the Wisconsin Historical Society in his 1998 exhibition catalog, 150 Years of Wisconsin Printmaking:

The print's title and the notation on the plate that identifies the image as being "Sturgeon Bay 1900" suggest a nostalgic purpose for the work. Instead of presenting the city as it was when the print was made in 1941, he looked back forty years, perhaps by reference to photography, to present if at the turn of the century [as Reynolds himself would have known it as a boy]. As if to reference further the retrospective stance of the work, there is a pencil notation in the print's margin that identifies it as having been printed on antique paper. This retrospective aspect of the work . . . may also reflect some of the historical goals of other projects of the WPA.

Our copy of the print is part of a portfolio of prints from the Wisconsin WPA, and this image is from a digitized version of that print from our digital collection Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA, which was made possible with generous financial support from The Chipstone Foundation.

View other posts on prints by Charles Reynolds.

View more posts from our Wisconsin Arts Projects digital collection.

#Old Sturgeon Bay 1900 #Sturgeon Bay #Wisconsin #etchings #Charles Reynolds #Charles Clark Reynolds #Federal Art Project #Works Progress Administration #WPA #Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA #Andrew Stevens #digital collections #intaglio prints #Wisconsin artists

[knittinghistory]

"Knitting Party" by William H. Johnson, c.1941-1942. Tempera and pen and ink on paper. The painting depicts Red Cross nurses knitting for the war effort.

#harlem renaissance #wpa #art #wwii #knitting #1940s #william h johnson

[lisamarie-vee]

#illustration #graphic design #printmaking #wpa

[viafrantica]

Miki Hayakawa - One Afternoon - 1935

#miki hayakawa #artists #japanese #american #30s #WPA

[ehghtyseven]

so fond of ned's little goalie dance at the start of each period

#alex nedeljkovic #pittsburgh penguins #he always does this little dance to rough up the ice #and I find it incredibly endearing #<333 #goalies #ned #penguins #video #my video #wpa

[todaysdocument]

People in need receive clothing made by Works Progress Administration seamstresses. Charleston, WV, July 7, 1938. 

Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index

Image description: We are in a large room with large tables in the center and lined with shelves holding folded clothes. Several women and children stand next to the shelves. One woman is holding up a skirt or pair of pants to the waist of a young woman. Five children look at the clothes on the shelves and table. A woman with a paper and pencil is talking to a woman whose hand is on the back of one of the children. 

#archivesgov #July 6 #1938 #1930s #great depression #Work Projects Administration #WPA #sewing #clothing #Charleston #West Virginia

[nemfrog]

Unfair to babies.  WPA Federal Art Project. Between 1936 and 1938. Erik Hans Krause, printmaker.

LOC

#poster #posters #wpa #baby #babies #on strike #unfair #1930s

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The wading pool, Carmansville Playground, July 1935. Carmansville was an old name for the West Side neighborhood extending from 140th Street, just north of City College, to 158th Street. The area is now known as Hamilton Heights (southern part) and Sugar Hill (northern part).

This new era of active recreation was thanks to the Departments of Parks harnessing the labor force of the Works Progress Administration, which employed millions of jobless people to carry out public works projects.

Photo: NYC Parks Dep't via the Daily Mail

#vintage New York #1930s #Carmansville #Hamilton Heights #Sugar Hill #public pool #kids swimming #wading pool #vintage summer #vintage NYC #WPA #water games

[topcat77]

Douglass Crockwell

WPA art ......   industrial workers at the newspaper plant in the town of Glens Falls, New York

#douglass crockwell #wpa

[percivalias]

"✭✭✭✫✫ — the canyon was nice but my gps wouldn't work and i had this constant feeling of being watched???"

#poster #desert #jackalope #slot canyon #rabbit #wpa #national park #artaneae