Works Project Administration, Photographic record of Work Projects Administration for the City of New York : Education and Recreation District Office work project activities, 1938

Album file [ca. 1880-ca. 1980] (bulk 1860-1920)

1938

74 photographs in 1 disbound album

Album of photographs produced by the Education and Recreation District Office of the Work Projects Administration, New York City, in 1938. The photographs depict children and adults engaged in educational and recreational activities as part of various city programs, including the Child Nutrition Program, the Recreation Program for Pre-School Age Children, the Recreational Day Camp Program, the Adult Education Program, the New Reading Materials Program, the Program for Handicapped Children, the Remedial Reading Program, the Field Activities Program, the Community Center Program, the Elementary School Activities Program, the Objective Teaching Materials Project, the Recreational Agencies Program, the Nursery School Program, the Recreation Truant Program, the Street and Play Center Program, and the Adjustment Program for Problem Cases. Title from cover. "Mary C. Tinney" stamped at lower right of cover. Gift of Work Projects Administration, March 26, 1943.

Print Room - PR-002-209

Adult education--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Children--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Children with disabilities--Education--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Education--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Immigrant children--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Recreation--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Remedial teaching--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Social work with children--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Social work with youth--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Teaching--Aids and devices--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Vocational education--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Youth--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Youth--Recreation--New York (State)--New York--Photographs

United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

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