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The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a land reclamation and shore beautification project on the south shore of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. As part of the project State Street was widened five feet on either side from Lewis… read more
Date added: January 12, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a land reclamation and shore beautification project on the south shore of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The project involved “the laying of electric cables for electric standards to provide a lighting system;… read more
Date added: January 10, 2015; Modified: January 12, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a land reclamation and shore beautification project on the south shore of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. “The Dawn,” a WPA publication, Oct. 1936: “Road construction and other operations by Works Progress Administration… read more
Date added: January 12, 2015; Modified: January 12, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a land reclamation and shore beautification project on the south shore of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. As part of the project Water Street was improved and an all-new road, then named Raritan… read more
Date added: January 12, 2015; Modified: January 12, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a land reclamation and shore beautification project on the south shore of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. As part of the project Water Street was widened by 12 feet and paved with macadam…. read more
Date added: November 19, 2014; Modified: January 12, 2015
Minna Citron painted this mural, “Horse Swapping Day” in 1942; the project was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: December 4, 2014; Modified: January 12, 2015
Mildred Waltrip painted the two-panel, oil-on-canvas mural “Robin Hood” (each panel measuring 5’3″ x 6’11”) in 1940 for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. “Two murals commissioned by the WPA, placed above the twin wooden benches of a niche… read more
Date added: January 7, 2015; Modified: January 11, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted unspecified work along the Cooper River [Valley] in New Jersey ca. 1936.
Date added: January 11, 2015
“Commissioners were wise enough to accept some federal aid and the WPA helped enlarge the high school stadium and did some excellent work in making the swamps along Newton Creek and Cooper River attractive parkways.”
Date added: December 8, 2014; Modified: January 11, 2015
Wendell Jones painted the oil-on-canvas mural “Barn Raising” in 1942 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Originally painted for the city’s then-new post office, the mural is currently viewable in the lobby of Rome’s City Hall.
Date added: January 11, 2015; Modified: January 11, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted flood control work along the Rahway River in West Orange, New Jersey, “from Joyce St. to the South Orange line.” The project was undertaken to “save property owners incalculable sums for many years… read more
Date added: January 8, 2015; Modified: January 11, 2015
Rotary Island, in the middle of the Delaware River and primarily located in Trenton, New Jersey, was improved by the federal National Youth Administration (NYA) ca. 1936. Quote “The Dawn,” a monthly WPA newsletter, July 1936: Forty youths are working… read more
Date added: January 11, 2015
More than 100 National Youth Administration (NYA) workers operated over three shifts to renovate the athletic fields (including football and baseball fields) at Camden High School in 1936.
Date added: January 11, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration paved Newark Street in Newark, New Jersey in 1936.
Date added: January 11, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration paved Broadway in Camden, New Jersey between Federal Street and the city line at Newton Creek. The project took 242 man-hours of work and required 4,000 tons of material.