The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Mitchel Field (later Mitchel Air Force Base), located in Hempstead, New York, during the 1930s and early 1940s. The WPA constructed the air base’s runways as well as a hangar addition and… read more
These two murals by Peppino Mangravite were funded by TRAP in 1937. They depict, respectively, a scene of the settlement of Hempstead and the arrival of British dirigible R.34 with the first air mail in 1919.
In 1938 Carl E. Noble completed six oil-on-canvas murals depicting the history of firefighting for the Hempstead Volunteer Fire Department’s Southside Hose Co. No. 2. The murals wrap around the company’s second-floor meeting room. Noble painted the murals for the Hempstead… read more
Photo caption: “The Hempstead Library, located on the northwest corner of Fulton and Terrace Avenue between 1927 and 1951. A federal WPA project underway on Terrace Avenue is visible at right of photograph.” The exact nature of this infrastructure project… read more