#WPA is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 9 people shared 24 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 40% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 16 with 7 posts.

Posts with #WPA

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025

@parkwaysprojects.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

“Cumberland's back pages" #TomOgburn #bridges #TheParkwaysProjects #mobilephotography #photography #shotoniphone #CivilianConservationCorps #WPA #EastCoastKin 🦋 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #blueskyart #blueskyphotography #TennesseeStateParks #skyart #blueridgeparkway #landscapes #nature #architecture

"Cumberland's back pages," part of 'The Parkways Projects,' to be an 11 tiered essay about 4 of the National Park Service's most beloved National Parks. The Blue Ridge Parkway & the Skyline Drive Parkway are both National Parks, each with a singular shared goal, to connect the Great Smoky Mountain & the Shenandoah National Parks by an historic scenic ribbon in the sky.

From Joseph Hyde Pratt’s vision in 1909 (although he was responding to earlier dreams dating back 75 years earlier) when a great road of commerce was proposed by some visionary North Carolinians. By the early 1930s, commerce was driving the imagined vehicular traffic along the crests of the Southern Appalachians, more specifically the Blue Ridge mountains. By 1934, minds in the North Carolina Legislature & the Whitehouse were reconsidering the primary purpose of the road as more of a local access road for resident & a scenic parkway for tourists wishing to visit either the Shenandoah or the Great Smoky Mountains both—via a splendid parkway which would retain the natural beauty of the land from Northern Virginia to Western North Carolina & parts of Eastern Tennessee.

It was considered by most a task so visionary, so Herculean in nature that it could not be done. It was then the great controversies began, many emerging from the eastern counties of Tennessee.

"The TVA was created by Congress in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Its initial purpose was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, regional planning & economic development to the Tennessee Valley, which had suffered from lack of infrastructure & even more extensive poverty during the Great Depression than other regions of the nation." ≈ Wikipedia

What also had formed concurrently to the TVA was the storied Civilian Conservation Corps—assigned the task to build the Cumberland Lake Dam Bridge, with its beautiful seven arches structure in golds of stone, leaves & vivid blue sky you see here today.

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@lronlacy.bsky.social

2 days ago

everything must contribute to quiet and the uninterrupted function of the broadcast.” [‘Music’ #LouisSchanker] www1.nyc.gov/site/designc... #AmericanArt #abstractart #murals #WPA #FederalArtProject #NewDeal #WNYC #interiordesign #interiordecoration

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rick

@rickehling.bsky.social

5 months ago

WPA murals - frescoes, in traditional wet plaster technique, by Lucien Labuadt, and assistants - 1936-7 inside the Beach Chalet. #BeachChalet #GGNRA #OceanBeach #SanFrancisco #WPA #WPAart #Frescoes #mosaic #alphabetchallenge #weekIforInteriors 🧵/1 📷 © Rick Ehling 03/05/2026

northwest corner, Fisherman’s Wharf and going to the beach

eastern wall to Baker Beach with the Marin headlands and the new Golden Gate in progress

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Laura JG

@laurajg.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Silver print production still from The River, 1938, a US Government documentary film directed by Pare Lorentz (1905-1992). Photo: Swann Gallery, Feb 04, 2021. #photography #WPA #documentary

A striking black and white portrait photo of a black man wearing a cap. He exudes strength and dignity.

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@lronlacy.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

#OTD in 1940 👇🧵 ‘#NewOrleans Public Library, Alvar Branch’ The Branch ‘is being constructed by WPA labor [and] is located on Alvar Street between Rampart and Burgundy. Exterior. 18 January 1940.’ #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #TheNewDeal #WPA

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Wikidgarden

@wikidgarden.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Beautiful California The sun drops behind the Golden Gate Bridge, 5/21/25 (from 47th floor, San Francisco Hilton; no edits) #GoldenGateBridge #California #SanFrancisco #GoldenState #AmericatheBeautiful #Nature #Landscape #WPA

Behind the dark, humped back of the steep city one sees grey mist-covered water. Across the water, dark, mist covered hills extend from the viewer’s right.
Left of center is the last third of today’s sun—glowing like a rounded coal. Tiny in the distance, but sharp against the light stands the iconic bridge tower. Farther right, the second supporting tower stands dimly in the fog. Above the hilly horizon, the sky glows deep orange, blending to yellow orange, to orange-grey-green, and to grey blue.

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@lronlacy.bsky.social

3 months ago

#OTD in 1941 🧵👇 #TheNewYorkerCover May 17, 1941 Another New Deal post office mural #VirginiaSnedeker Murals & other works of art for federal buildings - often post offices - were created as work relief for artists by the #WPA #FederalArtProject or the ➡️

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@lronlacy.bsky.social

9 months ago

#OTD in 1935 👇🧵 'Manhattan Bridge Looking Up’ Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) Changing New York series Federal Art Project Nov. 11, 1935 #BereniceAbbott #Manhattan #WPA #FederalArtProject #photographyart #photographers #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bridges

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@lronlacy.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

#OTD in 1938 ‘Scenic Designers and Model Makers. View of model’ Stage Set and Diorama Division, #WPA Federal Art Project. Photographic Division, #FederalArtProject 6 July 1938 #TheNewDeal #WorksProgressAdministration #photography #StageDesign #StageSets #modelmaking #ScenicDesign

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-2/box-28-folder-5
fedeartp14-box-28-folder-5 18.8.20

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Jen Howard

@jenhoward.bsky.social

5 months ago

I didn't live through the New Deal but I sure miss it. Adding this to my summer TBR list! #BookSky #preorder #WPA #beltpublishing beltpublishing.com/produc….

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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA

July 14, 2026edited by Anne Trubek with an introduction by Kim Kelly During the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers ...

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Visit Gallup

@visitgallup.bsky.social

4 months ago

The McKinley County Courthouse in Gallup was designed by the Trost & Trost firm. It is a New Deal art project, featuring murals, tile work, and other art. The exterior includes an Art Deco-style portico and a bell tower. #VisitGallup #history #travel #roadtrip #daytrip #WPA #NewMexico #Gallup