The posters of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), iconic for their distinct style and direct messages, inspired Americans in the 1930s and '40s—and 81 years later, their vintage charm appeals to ...

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 ...

Ennis Carter headed to New Orleans a few weeks ago for a vacation. She took a side trip — as the founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Design for Social Impact does whenever she visits a part ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Constitution Center now has on display dozens of posters created during the Great Depression. Back then, the Works Progress Administration hired 500 artists to design posters to promote ...

Next year's commemorative stamps will feature a retrospective on the Works Progress Administration, better known as the WPA. Created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration in 1935 as a way to ...

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...