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FDR’s New Deal

FDR’s New Deal. Public Works Administration (PWA). Created June 1933 Purposes: To provide jobs To stimulate demand for materials To construct long-lasting large-scale projects of social & economic worth. Public Works Administration (PWA).

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FDR’s New Deal

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  1. FDR’s New Deal

  2. Public Works Administration (PWA) • Created June 1933 • Purposes: • To provide jobs • To stimulate demand for materials • To construct long-lasting large-scale projects of social & economic worth

  3. Public Works Administration (PWA) • PWA granted 45% of labor/material costs; remainder paid by localities/states • PWA also granted $$ to other fed. gov’t agencies • Over $6 billion granted for 34,000 projects nationally • Over $100 million for 922 projects in Texas

  4. Types of PWA Work Projects • Buildings (gov’t admin., schools, hospitals, libraries, public housing, etc.) • Infrastructure (roads, bridges, tunnels, ports/harbors) • Water Reclamation (dams & hydro-electric plants) • Naval Vessels (aircraft carriers, battleships, etc.) • Municipal Sewers & water treatment plants

  5. Golden Gate Bridge (S.F.)

  6. Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Wash.)

  7. Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)

  8. Hoover Dam (Ariz.-N.M.)

  9. Lincoln Tunnel (N.Y.-N.J.)

  10. Pennsylvania Turnpike

  11. Chicago’s 1st Subway System

  12. LSU Stadium & Orange Bowl

  13. USS Yorktown

  14. Port of Brownsville

  15. Mansfield Dam (Lake Travis)

  16. Slum Clearance/Public Housing (San Antonio)

  17. Anson (Jones County) High School Auditorium

  18. UT Main Building & Tower

  19. Van Zandt County Courthouse (Canton)

  20. John Peter Smith City-County Hospital (Ft. Worth)

  21. Terminal & Hangar at Houston Municipal (Hobby) Airport

  22. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes • Progressive Era reformer & veteran of Chicago politics • Obsessed with avoiding scandal • Meticulous oversight = slow, but steady progress (& criticism)

  23. Works Progress Administration (WPA) • Created May 1935 • Primary Purpose: to provide jobs, jobs, jobs • Employed 8 million in US; 600,000 Texans • ¾ worked on construction projects (usually smaller scale than PWA) • WPA paid about ¾ of costs

  24. WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins • NYC social worker • Unlike Ickes, favored quick start to projects & rapid infusion of wages to workers

  25. San Francisco Zoo

  26. Topeka, Kansas High School

  27. Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood (Oregon)

  28. Restored Dock Street Theater (Charleston, SC)

  29. Nat’l Guard Armory in Tishomingo, Okla.

  30. Coronado Heights (Central Kansas)

  31. Fraser Field (Lynn, Mass.)

  32. Astoria Pool, largest in NYC

  33. Camp David, Maryland

  34. Possum Kingdom Arch Bridge (Palo Pinto County)

  35. Houston City Hall

  36. Ft. Worth Botanic Gardens

  37. Dallas & San Antonio Zoo improvement

  38. Dealey Plaza in Dallas

  39. San Antonio’s Riverwalk

  40. Will Rogers Memorial Center (Ft. Worth)

  41. Art Deco Buildings & Lagoon in Fair Park (Dallas)

  42. San Jacinto Battlefield Monument

  43. Corps of Cadets Dorms at Texas A&M

  44. WPA Gym in Plano (now the Courtyard Theater)

  45. Mt. Pleasant Country Club (Titus County)

  46. Robertson Stadium (Univ. of Houston)

  47. WPA: Non-construction work • ¼ of WPA workers performed non-construction work • WPA arts projects • Other projects not as well known

  48. WPA Theater Project

  49. WPA Writers’ Project

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