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Gay Bolling Shepperson Photographs

Gay Bolling Shepperson was the administrator of three successive federal relief projects in Georgia: the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This remarkable collection from the Atlanta History Center brings together images that document the activities of these various entities in the 1930s and 1940s....

https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/Sh...
Tampa WPA Office Papers

The University of South Florida Libraries have archived many dozens of wonderful collections and this one detailing the activities of the Works Progress Administration office in Tampa fits in nicely with the rest of these works. The majority of the 32 documents here deal with the history of Hillsborough County, along with detailed essays on the vibrant Ybor City and its immigration history....

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/
Willard Stewart WPA and HABS Photographs of Delaware

Born in 1915, Willard S. Stewart worked for the Federal Writers Project in Delaware as a photographer during the 1930s. Stewart also worked as a project photographer for the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), and he documented a significant portion of the state as part of these two very ambitious projects. The University of Delaware Digital Collections project has created this online...

https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=ead/gra...