In #MARCH 1934
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‘Supporters of the #CivilWorksAdministration protesting against the forthcoming termination of the organization, outside City Hall New York City, March 1934. Speakers predicted violence if Emergency Relief provided by the #CWA was withdrawn.’
#GreatDepression

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker. https://jlsphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/san%20antonio%20missions%20national%20historic%20park/

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & (#FERA) #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration

‘Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins in the back seat of an automobile in Rochester, Minnesota, after visiting son James Roosevelt in hospital. FDR arrived in Rochester September 11, 1938 and departed September 14, 1938.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hopkins

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#GreatDepression #relief #workrelief #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration #CivilWorksAdministration #CWA #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA #HarryHopkins

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker.

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)

#CivilWorksAdministration workers prepare to rebuild the north wall of the mission church. February 1934. #MissionSanJose, #SanAntonio #restoration #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CWA #workrelief

Fortified gate reconstructed with labor from the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) from plans by restoration architect Harvey Smith-
February 1934
#MissionSanJose, #SanAntonio #restoration #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker. image from https://jlsphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/san%20antonio%20missions%20national%20historic%20park/

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose, #SanAntonio, 1932-1937,
relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee then such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)
#TheNewDeal

Civil Works Administration Project No. 60-55-T5, Malaria Control--Near North Little Rock, Ark. Group at left front: G.E. Jones, local super, malaria control; R.L. Lester, forman; Willie Walker, Gen'l foreman; C.H. Wheat, foreman; Alfred Downs, foreman. 1934. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&q=civil+ 28.7.20 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Civil_Works_Administration_in_Arkansas#/media/File:CWA,_%22Malaria_Control_-_Near_North_Little_Rock,_Arkansas%22_-_NARA_-_196535.tif

“Harry Hopkins and Work Relief During the Great Depression”
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#GreatDepression #relief #workrelief #CivilWorksAdministration #HarryHopkins #FDR #blackandwhitephotography

Scenic boulevard built by 6,000 workers in San Francisco, California. 1934. (From The Roosevelt Year, by Larenz, pg 152 top. '6,000 men and a Scenic Boulevard, San Francisco,’ CWA). National Archives and Records Administration / Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Civil_Works_Administration_in_California#/media/File:CWA,_%226,000_Men_and_a_Scenic_Boulevard%22,_San_Francisco,_CA_-_NARA_-_196525.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CWA_highway_construction_crew_works_on_a_tunnel_portal_-_NARA_-_286044.jpg

A CWA dairy barn project for an educational facility in Xenia, Ohio. Photo from "America Fights the Depression: A Photographic Record of the Civil Works Administration" "Of the 60,500 buildings repaired or constructed under the [CWA], over half were educational buildings" (Analysis of Civil Works Program Statistics, 1939, p. 10). Work-relief administrator Harry Hopkins wrote, "Long after the workers of CWA are dead and gone and these hard times forgotten, their effort will be remembered by permanent useful works in every county of every state. People will... attend schools they built... do their public business in courthouses and state capitols which workers from CWA rescued from disrepair..." (Spending to Save, 1936, p. 120). http://nddaily.blogspot.it/2016/03/the-new-deal-355000-projects-to.html

the very experimental #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & placed it under the leadership of [its designer,] #HarryHopkins. ‘Within 4 months 4 million unemployed Americans, skilled & unskilled, were put to work. Half of the workers were taken from the relief rolls, the other ➡️

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, #FDR launched the short-lived #CivilWorksAdministration. It spent 200 million per month and gave jobs to four million, building bridges, schools, airports, and sewers. CWA was replaced in 1935 in the Second #NewDeal with #WorksProgressAdministration.

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker. https://jlsphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/san%20antonio%20missions%20national%20historic%20park/

The ambitious project to reconstruct & restore #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)

In #MARCH 1934
👇🧵
‘Supporters of the #CivilWorksAdministration protesting against the forthcoming abolition of the organization, outside City Hall New York City, March 1934. Speakers predicted violence if Emergency Relief provided by the #CWA was withdrawn.’
#GreatDepression

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker. https://jlsphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/san%20antonio%20missions%20national%20historic%20park/

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & (#FERA) #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)

#CivilWorksAdministration workers prepare to rebuild the north wall of the mission church. February 1934. #MissionSanJose, #SanAntonio #restoration #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CWA #workrelief

Fortified gate reconstructed with labor from the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) from plans by restoration architect Harvey Smith-
February 1934
#MissionSanJose, #SanAntonio #restoration #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal

Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio, Texas. Photograph by Jim Shoemaker. https://jlsphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/san%20antonio%20missions%20national%20historic%20park/

The ambitious reconstruction & #restoration of #MissionSanJose relied heavily on relief programs, a local Relief Committee (‘Central Relief Committee’) then, 1933-1937, such New Deal programs as the #CivilWorksAdministration (#CWA) & #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)