The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act. It was
Camp for unemployed women in Pennsylvania (3095)
Road construction project in progress in Kirkland, Washington (1934)
Distribution of clothing in Seattle (1934)
Ellen S. Woodward directed FERA's women's programs and later became an administrator for the Works Progress Administration and Social Security Administration
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The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs f
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…across the country. Faced with continued high unemployment and concerns for public welfare during the coming winter of 1933–34, FERA instituted the Civil Works Administration (CWA) as a $400 million short-term measure to get people to work. FERA was shut down in 1935 and its work taken over by two completely new federal…
Civil Works Administration workers cleaning and painting the gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol (1934).
Rock jail in Camp Verde, Arizona (1933)
CWA marker at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin (1934)
Marker for Grant Park in Phoenix (1934)