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 ...

A former park ranger has been searching for decades for an original copy of a historic WPA poster for Great Smoky Mountains ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The positive messages and programs of the Works Progress Administration, started 75 years ago, helped create roads, buildings, bridges and parks across the nation. While the New Deal jobs program is ...

WPA public service posters are often recognized for their remarkable design. Lesser known? They also pioneered the art of screen printing. From 1935 and 1942, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don't act against climate change. In 1938, the ...