Works Progress Administration nursery group   Save
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Description: This is a photo of several children playing outdoors while being watched by several women of varying ages. This is the Works Progress Administration (WPA) nursery group in Toledo, Ohio. The WPA was an agency born from the New Deal in 1935 and was renamed the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1939. This new agency had the task of employing unskilled workers to preform public works. The agency was done away with in 1943 as a result of the high demand for jobs that was created during World War 2. The WPA nursery program was established to take care of children, ages 2-4, for low-income families. Not only did this create jobs for teachers, but it also gave free time to the low-income families to find new work of their own. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_001_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.); Nursery schools; Nursery school facilities; Working class women; 20th century fashion; Children playing outdoors--Ohio--1930-1940;
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)