Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks explores the creation, disappearance, and rediscovery of 14 historic prints created for the National Park Service by the ...

Helicline Fine Art will debut at The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory, November 6–10, 2025, presenting rare works from its 1939 World’s Fair and WPA-era collections. The exhibition, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters is a collection of works created by artists in the 1930s as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration ...

Last spring, Michael Shefcik was watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow,” the PBS series where hopeful owners of mystery art and antiques consult experts on whether it’s treasure or trash. The ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...

WASHINGTON — When President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration launched a project to illustrate American folk art, it ended up with 18,527 watercolors of quilts, weather vanes, old ...

As president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted the United States in a massive course of self-betterment. Among the most obvious components of this effort were the infrastructure projects of the ...