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Title
Roads
and
highways
near
Eaton
,
Ohio
Subject
Streets--Ohio
Dirt roads--Ohio
Road construction workers
Road construction
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Eaton (Ohio)
Preble County (Ohio)
Description
This
is
a
photograph
of
men
working
on
road
construction
in
Eaton
,
Ohio
. This
construction
was
most
likely
a
part
of the
Works
Progress
Administration
project
, a
government
office
that
hired
unemployed
Americans
to
work
on
various
government
projects
from
April
8
,
1935
to
June
30
,
1943
. In the
first
six
months
that the
WPA
existed
,
more
than
173
,
000
Ohioans
,
including
both
men
and
women
,
found
employment
through
this
program
.
More
than
1
,
500
unemployed
teachers
in
Ohio
found
work
through
the
WPA
teaching
illiterate
adults
how to
read
. In
twelve
separate
counties
,
primarily
in
southeastern
Ohio
,
more
than
twenty-five
percent
of
families
had at
least
one
member
working
for the
WPA
during
the
late
1930s
. By the
end
of
1938
, these
various
workers
had
built
or
improved
12
,
300
miles
of
roads
and
streets
and
constructed
636
public
buildings
,
several
hundred
bridges
,
hundreds
of
athletic
fields
, and
five
fish
hatcheries
.
WPA
employees
made
improvements
to
thousands
of
more
buildings
,
roads
, and
parks
within
Ohio
.
WPA
artists
also
painted
a
number
of
murals
in
Ohio
post
offices
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
SA1039AV_B12F03_003_001.tif
Image Height
4923
Image Width
6079
File Size
45212540 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2010-04-13
Date modified
2011-06-09
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