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U.S. Works Progress Administration
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/U.S._Works_Progress_Administration
GPTKB entity
Statements (97)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
New Deal agency
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:WPA
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:director
gptkb:Harry_Hopkins
gptkbp:dissolved
1943
gptkbp:establishedBy
gptkb:Executive_Order_7034
gptkbp:formed
1935
gptkbp:fundedBy
gptkb:U.S._Congress
gptkbp:headquartersLocation
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
U.S. Works Progress Administration
gptkbp:notableAlumni
gptkb:Arthur_Miller
gptkb:Burt_Lancaster
gptkb:Eudora_Welty
gptkb:John_Cheever
gptkb:John_Steinbeck
gptkb:Paul_Robeson
gptkb:Ralph_Ellison
gptkb:Richard_Wright
gptkb:Saul_Bellow
gptkb:Sidney_Lumet
gptkb:Studs_Terkel
gptkb:Woody_Guthrie
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkb:William_Zorach
gptkb:Ben_Shahn
gptkb:Carl_Mydans
gptkb:Clifford_Odets
gptkb:Gordon_Parks
gptkb:Hyman_Bloom
gptkb:John_Houseman
gptkb:Joseph_Cotten
gptkb:Margaret_Bourke-White
gptkb:Orson_Welles
gptkb:Philip_Guston
gptkb:Alan_Lomax
gptkb:Augusta_Savage
gptkb:David_Smith
gptkb:Dorothea_Lange
gptkb:Elia_Kazan
gptkb:Isamu_Noguchi
gptkb:Jackson_Pollock
gptkb:Jacob_Lawrence
gptkb:Louise_Nevelson
gptkb:Mark_Rothko
gptkb:Pete_Seeger
gptkb:Romare_Bearden
gptkb:Walker_Evans
gptkb:Willem_de_Kooning
gptkb:Aaron_Douglas
gptkb:Ad_Reinhardt
gptkb:Arshile_Gorky
gptkb:Berenice_Abbott
gptkb:Chaim_Gross
gptkb:Charles_Alston
gptkb:Charles_White
gptkb:Ilya_Bolotowsky
gptkb:Joseph_Losey
gptkb:Lee_Krasner
gptkb:Lucienne_Bloch
gptkb:May_Swenson
gptkb:Milton_Avery
gptkb:Moses_Soyer
gptkb:Norman_Lewis
gptkb:Raphael_Soyer
gptkb:Saul_Levitt
gptkb:Stuart_Davis
gptkb:Theodore_Roszak
gptkb:William_Gropper
gptkb:Ann_Rosener
gptkb:Arthur_Rothstein
gptkb:Canada_Lee
gptkb:Earl_Robinson
gptkb:Edwin_Rosskam
gptkb:Esther_Bubley
gptkb:Jack_Delano
gptkb:John_Collier_Jr.
gptkb:John_Vachon
gptkb:Marion_Post_Wolcott
gptkb:Russell_Lee
gptkb:Will_Geer
gptkbp:notableProject
gptkb:Federal_Art_Project
gptkb:Federal_Music_Project
gptkb:Federal_Theatre_Project
gptkb:Federal_Writers'_Project
gptkb:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey
construction of bridges
construction of public buildings
construction of roads
gptkbp:numberOfPeopleEmployed
over 8 million
gptkbp:parentOrganization
gptkb:Federal_government_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:purpose
employment relief
public works
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Great_Depression
gptkb:New_Deal
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Federal_Works_Agency
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:National_Archives_at_Riverside
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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