Completion Year: 1941

The historic post office in Eutaw, Alabama houses an example of New Deal artwork: the mural "The Countryside" by Robert Gwathmey. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and completed in 1941.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did most of the early development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s.  As part of that work, CCC enrollees built several comfort stations (restrooms) and outhouses to serve the North Grove campground, picnic area and recreation hall (all of which the CCC had also built).   We cannot be absolutely certain which of the structures are CCC and which were added later, but the ones in the photographs here have all the tell-tale signs of dating from the 1930s..      

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did much of the early development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s.  As part of their work in the park, the CCC enrollees built a ranger station consisting of a ranger's home and several auxiliary buildings (garage, maintenance, tool shed, etc.)   The ranger home is just inside the park entry road off Highway 4. The auxiliary buildings are found across Highway 4 in the maintenance area.  We cannot be certain which of the latter structures are CCC, but those photographed have all the tell-tale signs of dating from the 1930s..      

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided the labor for the original development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s. The had been acquired by the State of California in 1931 after almost a century of agitation for the conservation of its extraordinary groves of Giant Sequoias.  A development plan was drawn up with the help of the National Park Service Regional Office and the State Parks Commission and carried out under the leadership of Carey "Pop" Traylor, Park Warden. The CCC established a camp in the park in early 1933, the first CCC camp in a California state park,...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did most of the development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s.  As part of their work, the CCC enrollees built roads and trails, along with some bridges; this would have been some of the earliest work done, c. 1933 to 1935.  We are not certain of all the roads and trails done by the CCC men, but they definitely rebuilt the entrance road down to the Sentinel Trees; built the loop road through the North Campground and the road into the maintenance area north of Highway 4. The stone road bridge next to...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided the labor for the early development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s.  Camp SP 22 was established June 1933, the first such camp in a California state park, and operated until 1941.  Several CCC companies cycled through Camp SP 22, including Companies 709, 1821, 1921-V, 2940 and 3860.   Company 1921-V was made up of World War I veterans, who worked in the park from 1935 to 1940. The camp was located at the entrance to the North Grove, next to what is now the Visitor Center parking lot.  The camp headquarters...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) made improvements to Lincoln Park from 1937 to 1941 in connection with its commitment of $1,100,000 to upgrade North Lake Shore Drive through the park.  One such project was the "Passerelle", or pedestrian bridge over Lake Shore Drive, completed in 1940.. The Lincoln Park passerelle was designed by Ralph Burke and gained national recognition in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, "Built in USA, 1932-44."  It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Lincoln Park is one of Chicago’s largest and oldest parks and a prime example of the city’s commitment to conserving and protecting...

The Park Row Dr. Bridge over Arroyo Seco Parkway (today’s Pasadena Freeway) in Los Angeles, CA was constructed in 1941 by the California State Division of Highways with Public Works Administration (PWA) funding. Although this bridge in unmarked, other similar bridges over Arroyo Seco Parkway feature extant PWA plaques. When the first two stages of the Parkway were completed in 1943, 26 new bridges had been built along its 8.2-mile length, many with Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. The Division of Highways Bridge Department supervised construction. “ridges were needed for safe and easy crossings, and were deemed necessary to maintain established community...

Built by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1941, the Berth 234 Terminal Island ferry building in San Pedro, CA, was designed by Los Angeles Harbor Department architect Derwood Lydell Irvin. Along with its sister—the Municipal Ferry Terminal building at Berth 84 across the Los Angeles Harbor Main Channel—the Terminal Island ferry building was in operation from 1941 to 1963, serving hundreds of thousands of passengers commuting between San Pedro and Terminal Island. The ferry became obsolete with the opening of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in 1963. Although the Terminal Island structure was demolished in 1972, its counterpart survives as the Los...

In 1941, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) undertook a storm sewer construction project in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens. One of six sewers was installed at Rockaway Beach Blvd from Beach 117th St to Beach 116th St. According to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the other five sewers were located at “Beach 147th St. between Newport Ave. and Jamaica Bay, Beach 141st St. between Cronston Ave. and Beach Channel Drive, Beach 120th St. between Newport Ave. and Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach Boulevard north and south from Beach 120th to Beach 121st Sts., an overflow arrangement at Beach Channel...