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Milwaukee Wpa Handicraft Project Online Exhibit, Lois M. Quinn, Mary Kellogg Rice
Milwaukee Wpa Handicraft Project Online Exhibit, Lois M. Quinn, Mary Kellogg Rice
ETI Publications
This online presentation provides photographs and text from an exhibit prepared by the late Mary Kellogg Rice for the Golda Meir Library in October 1997. Rice served as art director for a highly regarded WPA project operating in the 1930s for women in Milwaukee County. The historic WPA photographs and examples of project work were collected by Rice for her book “Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project,” published by the Milwaukee County Historical Society in 2003. Rice dedicated the exhibit to the five thousand women and men who worked for the Milwaukee Handicraft Project from 1935 …
They Built Our Community: Relief Work During The Great Depression, Lois M. Quinn
They Built Our Community: Relief Work During The Great Depression, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This booklet describes a number of work relief projects operating in Milwaukee County in the 1930s with lasting positive impacts on the county. Highlights include construction of the Village of Greendale by the WPA and Resettlement Authority, support for health department inoculations of children, introduction of hot lunch programs for rural school children, construction of the Milwaukee water filtration plant, toy loan projects, and development of one of the finest park systems in the nation.
History Of Jobs For Workers On Relief In Milwaukee County, 1930-1994, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
History Of Jobs For Workers On Relief In Milwaukee County, 1930-1994, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
From 1930 to the present Milwaukee city and county governments have created thousands of jobs for families who could not find unsubsidized employment and who sought county relief. Federal funds were used to create construction, education, health and office work for men and women heading families hardest hit by the Great Depression. In the 1930s in Milwaukee County federal “relief workers" helped build one of the finest park systems in the nation. For over sixty years Milwaukee County used local funds to operate work programs as part of its local provision of relief to individuals and families. Milwaukee's long history …