The Living New Deal

A picture of the Living New Deal's interactive map, highlighting New Deal sites, structures, and works of art.

The Living New Deal is a research project and online public archive documenting the scope and impact of the New Deal on American lives and the national landscape.[1] The project focuses on public works programs, which put millions of unemployed to work, saved families from destitution, and renovated the infrastructure of the United States.

The WPA built this Community Club House in Cottonwood, Arizona, 1938-1939.

The centerpiece of the Living New Deal is a website that catalogs and maps the location of public works projects and artworks created from 1933 to 1943 under the aegis of the federal government during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[2]

  1. ^ "California's Living New Deal project". The Guardian. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. ^ The Living New Deal does not currently document the tens of thousands of public service projects sponsored by the WPA (and other New Deal programs), such as sewing rooms, archaeological digs and work on library catalogs, because of their uncertain locations and / or absence of surviving results.