Digging out of the Great Depression
Subtitle: federal programs at work in and around Birmingham
By: [edited by Julius E. Linn, Jr., Katherine M. Tipton, and Marjorie L. White]
Contributors: Birmingham Historical Society
Edition: Original limited ed.
Publisher: Birmingham Historical Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Birmingham, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780943994352
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939; Pictorial works; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Public welfare; History; Intellectual life; Art and state; Federal government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alphabet agencies; title: Putting the first 15,000 to work : the Civil Works Administration (CWA); title: Roosevelt's tree army : the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); title: Better housing for industrial workers : subsistence homesteads and public housing; title: Jobs for the jobless : the Works Progress Administration (WPA); title: Creating a city beautiful : WPA beautification efforts; title: Artists on relief : a new deal for the arts; title: On stage : the Federal Theatre Project (FTP); title: Digging up the past : advances in southeastern archaeology; title: Recording our heritage : the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS); title: Built to last : a legacy in stone at Birmingham Parks.