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"Work Promotes Confidence," WPA poster, New York Federal Arts Project

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Arthur Getz, "Harvest," Post office mural, Bronson, Michigan.

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This week I want to focus images displayed and discussed at the excellent website Picturing U.S. History. This is useful stuff for thinking about how to use images in class. In truth, although I have collected these images on the site over the years, I don't have a very sophisticated pedagogy for using them. So this site is helping me think harder about how to use the images.

For the week I am going to highlight images they have collected of artistic representations of the Great Depression and New Deal.

"Forging Ahead," New York Federal Art Project, Works Project Administration poster, 1936-41.

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Works Progress Administration project, Utah, 1930s

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Lizzie Hill, ex-slave interviewed by the WPA, 1930s