Primary Sources

All the WPA Photographs You Could Desire, July 28, 2014.

https://constellations.pitt.edu/entry/all-wpa-photographs-you-could-desire.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Effects on WPA Workers page.

“Bethpage Black Was Built during Great Depression Thanks to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”

Golf, June 16, 2009.

https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/during-great-depression-fdr-used-peoples-money-bui

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I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Infrastructure page.

Burns, David. WPA - The Works Progress Administration. Accessed January 15, 2020.

https://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ffap/Unit_9_1930s/Unit9_WPA.html.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Infrastructure page.

“File:Women Working for the WPA.jpg.” Wikimedia Commons, March 25, 2018.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_Working_for_the_WPA.jpg.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Effects on WPA Workers page.

 “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, September 5, 2019.

https://www.biography.com/us-president/franklin-d-roo​sevelt​.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Background page.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. ​No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the Home Front in

World War II​. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

I used the information about Elenor Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins to gain knowledge on

how they ran and percepted the WPA employees and how the WPA impacted black

americans. The quotes from the book can be found on the Effects on WPA Workers page.

“15 Things About the San Antonio Riverwalk You Never Knew.” San Antonio Real Estate for

Sale. Accessed January 15, 2020.

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er-knew/.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Infrastructure page.

Kamiya, Gary. “How the WPA Saved S.F.'s Aquatic Park.” SFChronicle.com. San Francisco

Chronicle, November 21, 2015.

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47362.php.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Infrastructure page.
New Mexico Architectural Foundation. “Architectural Feature: Zimmerman Library.” New

Mexico Architectural Foundation, May 9, 2014.

https://newmexicoarchitecturalfoundation.org/2014/02/27/zimmerman/.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Infrastructure page.

“President Herbert Hoover.” National Archives and Records Administration. National

Archives and Records Administration. Accessed January 15, 2020.

https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/president-herbert-hoover.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Background page.

“Rare, Moving Photos of Black Life During the 1930s and '40s: African American History,

History, Black History Facts.” Pinterest. Accessed January 15, 2020.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/154248355961063814/?lp=true.

I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the

Effects on WPA Workers page.

“The Works Progress Administration.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed January

15, 2020.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-works-pr

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I used a photograph that was also used by this source. The picture can be found on the
 Effects on WPA Workers page.

USC Digital Library. “Hoover Dam (Also Known as Boulder Dam) under Construction,

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I wanted to approximately how many buildings the WPA made. This information of the

Infrastructure ​page.

Secondary Sources

Brianna. “Wages in the 1930s.” Career Trend. Accessed December 18, 2019.

https://careertrend.com/info-8161759-wages-1930s.html.

I used this source to gain knowledge on what people working under a private company

would earn hourly. I learned that the lowest pay wasn’t much different from what a

person employed by the WPA would make. ​This information is used on the Effects on

WPA Workers page.

“FDR Creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).” History.com. A&E Television

Networks, November 16, 2009.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-creates-the-wpa.

I used this website to gain knowledge on the events that lead up to the creation of the

WPA. I also needed why Franklin D. Roosevelt himself had decided why the United
 States needed the Works Progress Administration. I used this source on the Background

page.

History.com Editors. “Herbert Hoover.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, October 29,

2009. https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover.

I used this source to know what the president before Franklin D. Roosevelt was trying to

do about unemployment. The information about Herbert Hoover and what he tried to do

to fix the problem is on the Background page.

“Job Creation Programs of the Great Depression: The WPA and the CCC.”

EveryCRSReport.com. Congressional Research Service, January 14, 2010.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R41017.html.

This source gave me information on who they would prioritize to hire. The information

used from this website is on the Effects on WPA Works page.

“Minority Groups and the Great Depression.” Great Depression and the New Deal Reference

Library. Encyclopedia.com, December 24, 2019.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/

minority-groups-and-great-depression.

I needed information on if the WPA would hire minority groups. The WPA would hire

many different kinds of people and that information from this website is on the Effects on

WPA Works page.

Sisson, Patrick. “10 Incredible Examples of New Deal Architecture and Design.” Curbed.

Curbed, January 19, 2017.

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I wanted to know if there were any buildings that were still being used the WPA built. 5

of the most famous buildings that they made is on the Infrastructure page.

“The Works Progress Administration.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed December

18, 2019.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-works-p

rogress-administration-wpa/.

This source had how much the WPA employees would make a month. The monthly

salary of the WPA workers was on the Effects on WPA Workers page.

“Works Progress Administration.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, December 11, 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration.

I wanted to approximately how many buildings the WPA made. This information of the

Infrastructure ​page.

“Works Progress Administration.” Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library.

Encyclopedia.com, December 5, 2019.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/work-projects

-administration.

This website was used for more information on many buildings the WPA built. This

information on the Infrastructure page.