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A Field Guide to Austin’s New Deal-Era Public Works Architecture

James Rambin June 5, 2020 Comment

Perhaps the most lasting impact of the New Deal programs enacted during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the economic woes of the Great Depression is found in its public works projects, built or funded by an alphabet soup of federal agencies including the Public Works Administration (PWA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the National Youth Administration (NYA).

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These programs provided employment for millions of unemployed . . .

 

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