The National Youth Administration was a New Deal agency sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. It focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25
Poster for the Illinois branch of the National Youth Administration, 1937. "Illinois" is misspelled.
Badge belonging to a National Youth Administration Defense Worker
NYA float, "Projects for Out-of-School Youth", Inaugural Parade, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1937
NYA female ordnance worker
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My Day was a newspaper column written by First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt six days a week from December 31, 1935, to September 26, 1962. In her column, Roosevelt discussed issues incl
School portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt greeting opera singer Marian Anderson in 1953. Their friendship continued long after they first met in 1935.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, and others at the opening of Midway Hall, one of two residence buildings at the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in May 1943.