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Transportation - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Report consisting of photographs with captions showing rural road improvement projects of the Works Progress Administration throughout eastern and middle Tennessee during the 1930s. Arranged by county, the photographs show work crews, grading and improvement projects, quarries, construction equipment, and road conditions before and after WPA projects.
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When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 million American workers were jobless and many millions more of their family members were equally in need. Desperation ruled the land. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts-the pride of earning a paycheck. And in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs...
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