Work Pays America!
Works Progress Administration poster artist · 1937
Why it's great
A poster from the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal program that put millions of Americans back to work building roads, bridges and schools, as well as paying artists and writers. The workers and a wheat stalk show the idea that work lifts up the whole country.
🏛️ Part of history
The Great Depression (1929–1939) — A poster from the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal program that put millions of Americans back to work building roads, bridges and schools, as well as paying artists and writers.
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This poster was made by an artist working for the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that hired thousands of artists in the 1930s to make posters, murals and prints for the public.
