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#OTD in 1935
This #NavajoNation school building in #Burnham, #NewMexico, was built in 1934-1935 with funds from the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA). Photo from *Indians At Work*, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, March 1, 1935 edition.
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#NativeAmericans #TheNewDeal

‘The Music Hall, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.’ Picture postcard. image from http://www.squeezeboxcity.com/the-music-hall-in-municipal-auditorium/ 21.4.21

Kansas City Municipal Auditorium - Panorama of Music Hall. Photo Matthew Miquelon. image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/triomatt/6242834920 21.4.21

‘The Orchestra Promenade, [Music Hall] Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.’ Picture postcard. image from https://pendergastkc.org/article/buildings-orgs/municipal-auditorium 21.4.21

The Orchestra Promenade, Lobby, Music Hall, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City image from https://kcconvention.com/venue/music-hall/music-hall-lobby-2-2/ 21.4.21

The Music Hall
#KansasCity #MunicipalAuditorium #TheNewDeal #PWA #PublicWorksAdministration
#HarrySTruman #10YearPlan

#OTD in 1935
‘Auditorium Kansas City, Mo. Date – 1-16-35. P.W.A. Project #954’ Kansas City Municipal Auditorium. Construction photo, 16 Jan. 1935
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This major addition to the city, built 1934-1936 with funds from #theNewDeal’s #PublicWorksAdministration and designed by two ➡️

Photo id: 179447 - Public Works Administration Project, Bonneville Dam in Oregon. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York. - Reproduction number: 48223908(9) https://twitter.com/TheBTI/status/1075819883345063936

#OTD in 1934
#PWA #PublicWorksAdministration Project, #BonnevilleDam, Columbia River. Excavation for Navigation Lock and Approach Channnel, concrete forms for guide wall. 21 December 1934.
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#blackandwhitephotography

Photo Georgia Info, Digital Library of Georgia. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/node?page=121&page%3D37=

#OTD in 1935
‘U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in #Atlanta at the dedication ceremony for #TechwoodHomes, the nation's first #publichousing project, on November 29, 1935,’ funded by the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
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#blackandwhitephotography #FDR

Here a worker is welding parts together to make one of the cutting heads of the dredges that actually digs into the sediment to be pumped to form the dam.

into a large-format weekly, the first to rely largely on excellent photography. Featured in that debut was photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), her subject the construction of the #FortPeckDam in Montana, a colossal project of the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA) ➡️

#OTD - Nov. 20 - in 1935
Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam, Columbia River - the power house under construction.
#PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA) Project
#USArmyCorpsOfEngineers
#TheNewDeal #infrastructure #ColumbiaRiver #BonnevilleDam

Public Works Administration. US Army Corps of Engineers. Dams under construction, Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement. November 16, 1934.
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4 November, 1935
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#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #infrastructure #ColumbiaRiver #BonnevilleDam
#USArmyCorpsOfEngineers #blackandwhitephotography #aerialphotography

#OTD in 1936
Fish ladder under construction, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River. October 26, 1936
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#PWA #PublicWorksAdministration #dams #BonnevilleDam #infrastructure #conservation #fishladders

‘Downstream side of Blocks 7 and 8 of North Half of Spillway Dam and Piers 9 to 12. Inclusive of South Half of Dam’
24 October 1936
#ColumbiaRiver #BonnevillDam #dams #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #infrastructure #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography

#OTD in 1936
#PublicWorksAdministration Project, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, 40 miles East of Portland
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#PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #blackandwhitephotography

Public Works Administration Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, 40 miles East of Portland Oregon’ 16 Oct. 1936
#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #dams #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers

#OTD in 1936
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‘Downstream view of construction operations of the northern half of the main dam at the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam, #ColumbiaRiver, Oregon
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#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #BonnevillDam

‘Public Works Administration. #USArmyCorpsOfEngineers. #Salverton #Missouri, Dams under construction, Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement. October 11, 1934.’
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#infrastructure #MississippiRiver #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/thumbnails&q=PWA

#OTD in 1934
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‘U.S. Engineers. Mississippi River Lock #22. “P.W.A.” Contract #W741 Eng 1394. Main lock lower gate area. Placing concrete in sill. Lock #22, Saverton, Missouri, under construction.’
#infrastructure #MississippiRiver #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal

‘Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers his talk at the dedication of Hoover Dam (then Boulder Dam). 30 September 1935.’
#BureauOfReclamation photographer
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#HooverDam #FDR #HaroldIckes #blackandwhitephotography #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA

#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (1)
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Dedication by FDR of the Bonneville Dam
28 September, 1937
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#BonnevilleDam #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #ColumbiaRiver
#blackandwhitephotography

‘The slide took the lives of 8 men on September 22, 1938. Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, Montana.’
#FortPeckDam #Montana #PWA #PublicWorksAdministration #NewDeal #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers

Full Citation: ‘Public Works Administration Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, "Spillway."; 9/2/1938; Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs.’ [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/public-works-administration-project-us-army-corps-of-engineers-bonneville-power-dam-in-oregon-columbia-river-spillway, July 25, 2020] http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=3055

#OTD in 1938
Spillway of the Bonneville Power Dam, Columbia River, Oregon.
Public Works Administration Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2 Sept. 1938
#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal #BonnevilleDam #ColumbiaRiver #blackandwhitephotography #USArmyCorpsofEngineers

Government-funded public housing project in #WashingtonDC and the second in the nation. Initial funding came from the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA); later the #USHousingAuthority stepped in to complete the job.
Construction began in 1935, with African American workers ➡️

#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Navajo Nation Council Chambers - PWA 1934-1935
Architect: Murray Mayers and Phillip (Goodhue); Navajo Craftsman
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#NavajoNationCouncilChambers #NavajoNation

#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Lincoln Tunnel connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and Manhattan, PWA 1934-1937
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#NewDeal #infrastructure #LincolnTunnel

‘Together with a landscaped park and numerous playgrounds, the project covers twenty-five gross acres [over 10 hectares], formerly twelve slum blocks. The buildings, occupying only about 30 per cent of the gross area, are grouped into four super-blocks, formed by closing two through streets to traffic. Three blocks have six apartment houses each, the other has two houses, the new William J. Gaynor Junior High School, a park, and a playground. . . . The houses are placed at a fifteen-degree angle to the streets to orient the buildings toward the sun.’ Guidebook to the New York City written and published (WPA Federal Writers’ Project)

#OTD in 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA):
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#WilliamsburgHouses, #Brooklyn 1937-1939
20 4-story apartment houses accommodating 1,622 low-income families
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#urbanplanning #housing #WilliamLascaze #RichmondHShreve
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‘Charity Hospital's most recent incarnation, the building is a twenty-story, art deco skyscraper designed by the firm, Weiss, Dryfous, and Seiferth. Until damage from Hurricane Katrina forced it's closing in 2005, Charity was the second oldest continually-operating public hospital in the United States.’ - http://www.knowla.org/entry/495/&view=image-gallery image from http://mpphotography.com/

#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#CharityHospital in #NewOrleans. PWA project 1936-1940.
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Photograph by #MichaelPalumbo.
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#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#HooverDam (originally #BoulderDam - 1931-1936) - completed with funds from the PWA
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#Photograph by #AnselAdams. 1942.
#HooverDam #BoulderDam #LakeMead

‘HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY – 1. “The modernistic front of the earthquake-proof Hollywood High School at Los Angeles constructed by PWA.”’ National Archives and Records Administration

#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Hollywood High
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After the earthquake of 1933, the pre-existing building was repaired, the library was renovated and given a new façade, ➡️

#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the Public Works Administration (PWA)
Shelby County Courthouse – Shelbyville, Indiana. 1937.
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#PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA) #Shelbyville #ShelbyCounty #Indiana #NewDeal #architecture

#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration
#PWA project: State Capitol, Salem, Oregon
- Design by NYC–based Francis Keally with the firm Trowbridge & Livingston
- North front soon after the building was opened, 1938-1939

#OTD in 1940
#BonnevilleDam on the #ColumbiaRiver, a project of #TheNewDeal’s #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA) executed by the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers.
Power plant interior. Installing generator. 12 August, 194[0].
#hydropower #industrialsublime #balackandwhitephotography