Federal Art Project. Photographic Division, est. 1935 - 1943

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942

12.4 linear feet (on 20 microfilm reels)
Reel(s): 1160-1179

Photographs taken by the Federal Art Project Photographic Division, primarily in New York City, to document activities of artists working on the Federal Art Project under the Work Projects Administration's Federal Project No. 1.

REELS 1160-1174: Photographs, primarily of works of art by artists engaged in WPA activities; some are of artists at work on projects. [Many photographs of the artists themselves, mostly at work, received with this collection were removed by AAA staff and placed in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collection One, reels 439-441, and subsequently cataloged separately].

REELS 1174-1179: Photographs of New York City WPA free art classes, including students at work; children at work; children's art work; New York City WPA art exhibitions, including children's art exhibits; children's festival at Central Park, August 1938; general art exhibits; art exhibits of black artists; exhibits by the handicapped; educational exhibits: branches of the NYC FAP: photographic division, poster division design lab, scenic design and model making, home design workshops, Seamen's Institute, and restoration department; and people involved with the FAP in New York City. Washington state FAP art galleries, art work, men at work, people, miscellaneous interiors; federal and community art centers; techniques and processes of art; National Art Week; the WPA building at the World's Fair; WPA-FAP functions; WPA Federal Music, Theater and Writers' Projects; Civilian Conservation Corps Camps training school; WPA murals and construction at airports; metal work; locations of WPA art; building exteriors; and miscellaneous and unidentified photos.

Donated anonymously.

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