#PublicWorksAdministration
July 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
July 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
#OTD in 1937
Aerial view, construction of power plant & navigation lock, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River.
6 July 1937.
#TheNewDeal #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #dams #BonnevilleDam #inlandnavigation #ColumbiaRiver #hydroelectricpower #aerialphotography #blackandwhitephotography
July 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (1)
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Dedication by FDR of the Bonneville Dam
28 September, 1937
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#BonnevilleDam #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #ColumbiaRiver
#blackandwhitephotography
September 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#OTD in 1937
View of construction with fish ladder, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River; a project of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers from the New Deal’s #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
9 July 1937
#dams #construction #BonnevilleDam #ColumbiaRiver #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography
July 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Lincoln Tunnel connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and Manhattan, PWA 1934-1937
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#NewDeal #infrastructure #LincolnTunnel
August 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
#OTD in 1934
#PWA #PublicWorksAdministration Project, #BonnevilleDam, Columbia River. Excavation for Navigation Lock and Approach Channnel, concrete forms for guide wall. 21 December 1934.
#blackandwhitephotography
December 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM
‘The slide took the lives of 8 men on September 22, 1938. Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, Montana.’
#FortPeckDam #Montana #PWA #PublicWorksAdministration #NewDeal #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers
September 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
In #APRIL 1937
Shelby County Courthouse – Shelbyville, Indiana – completed. Public Works Administration (PWA). 1937.
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#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #ShelbyCountyCourthouse #Shelbyville #Indiana #blackandwhitephotography
April 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
#OTD 1935
Aerial view Columbia River & Bonneville Dam construction site. 10 July 1935.
A project planned & executed by the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers under the #PublicWorksAdministration (PWA).
#dams #construction #BonnevilleDam #TheNewDeal #PWA #ColumbiaRiver #blackandwhitephotography
July 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the Public Works Administration (PWA)
Shelby County Courthouse – Shelbyville, Indiana. 1937.
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#PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA) #Shelbyville #ShelbyCounty #Indiana #NewDeal #architecture
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#OTD in 1937
‘Workers pose on the blade of a turbine before final placement’ in the power house of the Bonneville Dam, Columbia River.
#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #BonnevilleDam #ColumbiaRiver #hydropower
11 June 1937
June 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#HooverDam (originally #BoulderDam - 1931-1936) - completed with funds from the PWA
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#Photograph by #AnselAdams. 1942.
#HooverDam #BoulderDam #LakeMead
August 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#OTD in 1935
‘U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in #Atlanta at the dedication ceremony for #TechwoodHomes, the nation's first #publichousing project, on November 29, 1935,’ funded by the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
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#blackandwhitephotography #FDR
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#OTD in 1934
#PWA #PublicWorksAdministration Project, #BonnevilleDam, Columbia River. Excavation for Navigation Lock and Approach Channnel, concrete forms for guide wall. 21 December 1934.
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#blackandwhitephotography
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#OTD in 1936
#PublicWorksAdministration Project, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, 40 miles East of Portland
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#PWA #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #infrastructure #blackandwhitephotography
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the Public Works Administration (PWA)
Shelby County Courthouse – Shelbyville, Indiana. 1937.
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#PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #Shelbyville #ShelbyCounty #Indiana #NewDeal #architecture
August 19, 2026 at 1:16 PM
‘Downstream side of Blocks 7 and 8 of North Half of Spillway Dam and Piers 9 to 12. Inclusive of South Half of Dam’
24 October 1936
#ColumbiaRiver #BonnevillDam #dams #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #infrastructure #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#HooverDam (originally #BoulderDam - 1931-1936) - completed with funds from the PWA
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#Photograph by #AnselAdams. 1942.
#HooverDam #BoulderDam #LakeMead
August 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Navajo Nation Council Chambers - PWA 1934-1935
Architect: Murray Mayers and Phillip (Goodhue); Navajo Craftsman
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#NavajoNationCouncilChambers #NavajoNation
August 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
#OTD in 1935
This #NavajoNation school building in #Burnham, #NewMexico, was built in 1934-1935 with funds from the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA). Photo from *Indians At Work*, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, March 1, 1935 edition.
#NativeAmericans #TheNewDeal
March 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA)
Hollywood High
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After the earthquake of 1933, the pre-existing building was repaired, the library was renovated and given a new façade, ➡️
August 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
#OTD in 1936
Fish ladder under construction, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River. October 26, 1936
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#PWA #PublicWorksAdministration #dams #BonnevilleDam #infrastructure #conservation #fishladders
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#OTD in 1945
Bonneville Dam. Place for counting fish along fish ladder(?) 5 June 1945
#BonnevilleDam #PWA #PublicWorksAdministration #USArmyCorpsOfEngineers #hatchery #fishladder #conservation #environmentalimpact
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM