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Women's Work Division

  1. Women making rugs in Durham County, c.1934.
  2. Women making quilts in Durham County, c.1934.
  3. Women's sewing room in Charlotte, c.1934.
  4. Project application for a sewing room at Southport.
  5. Women's sewing room run with the cooperation of the Red Cross, Wilmington, 1934.
  6. Women's Work Division reports.
  7. Women making mattresses in Wilmington in 1934.
  8. Project application for mattress making in Buncombe County.
  9. Furniture making and repair in Mecklenburg County, part of the Women's Division.
  10. Furniture making and repair in Buncombe County, part of the Women's Division.

Recreational Facilities

  1. Construction of Riddick Stadium at NCSU, 1935.
  2. Swimming pool and bathhouse at Pullen Park, Raleigh, c. 1934.
  3. Gymnasium built in Morehead City, c.1934.
  4. Construction of park in High Point, 1933.
  5. Beautification of Greenfield Park in Wilmington, c.1934.
  6. Project application for restoration of Old Fort Raleigh.
  7. Restoration of Old Fort Raleigh, the gate pillars were later moved.
  8. Construction of pump house at Old Fort Raleigh, c. 1934.
  9. Nathaniel Macon House before restoration in 1917, front view.
  10. Nathaniel Macon House in Warren County, before restoration.

Public Education

  1. WPA Public Library Poster, Informed America.
  2. WPA Public Library Poster, Book Week.
  3. From inside a tobacco packing house, a farmer selects books from the Richard B. Harrison Library bookmobile, 1946.
  4. Muralist James McLean painting a mural for Cannon Memorial Library.
  5. Construction of the Mint Museum of Arts in Charlotte.
  6. Project application for Geodetic Control Survey.
  7. Geodetic survey marker.
  8. NC Symphony rehearsal for the concert to be given March 15, 1940 in the Meredith College Auditorium.

Roads, Streets and Bridges

  1. WPA project sign announcing the widening of Highway 421.
  2. Improving a road in Watauga County, c.1934.
  3. Finished road beside the Salem Reservoir in 1935
  4. Men working on street improvement.
  5. Bridge built on the Queen River in Onslow County.
  6. Bridge constructed near Fairmont in 1939.
  7. Start of street construction in Spindale in 1939
  8. Application for project to improve Biltmore Avenue
  9. Biltmore Avenue in Asheville before widening the street, pre 1934
  10. Biltmore Avenue in Asheville during street widening, 1934

Public Buildings

  1. Capitol Grounds Improvements.
  2. Forestry school building in Durham County.
  3. Repairs to Dairy Research Plant in Willard, 1939.
  4. New armory in Parkton, 1939.
  5. The men take a break to receive their pay in Durham County.
  6. Young Tarheel Farmers Camp at White Lake received several new buildings, c.1934.
  7. An addition was added to Mill Spring School in Polk County, 1939.
  8. American Legion Hut in Lumberton, 1933.
  9. Improvements to the Macedonia Colored School, c.1934.
  10. New School in Big Bend, c.1934.
  11. New School in Big Bend, c.1934. (second image)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  1. CCC Workers planting trees in western NC, c.1936.
  2. North tunnel portal from station, 1939.
  3. Grading and dumping station, 1941.
  4. Truck and road paving machines on parkway.
  5. Road crew cutting away the side of a mountain, possibly in preparation of a tunnel.
  6. Memo about the requirements for the Civilian Conservation Corps.
  7. Pamphlet announcing completing of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Federal Writer's Project

  1. The Highway Traveler, pamphlet collected for the Guide.
  2. Come to North Carolina, pamphlet collected for the Guide.

Conservation of Fish and Game

  1. Fish hatchery in Roaring Gap.
  2. Oyster planting in Carteret County, 1935.
  3. Project application for planting oysters, Brunswick Co. 1934.

Sewers, Drainage and Public Utility

  1. New Privies for Sanitary Improvement built in Wilkes County.
  2. Project application for sanitary privy construction.
  3. New privies for sanitary improvement built in Wilkes County.
  4. Workers building a sewer tunnel under the railroad tracks outside of Burlington, c.1934.
  5. Drainage Project for malaria control.
  6. New water lines for improved water to the community of Wilkesboro.
  7. W.P.A. project sign announcing the construction of Water Works for Wilkesboro.

Airport Construction

  1. Airfield at Rock Mount Airport.
  2. Miller Municipal Airport in Forsyth County.

Cemetery Improvements

  1. New stone wall for Mecklenburg County Cemetery.
  2. Headstones in the National Cemetery were replaced in symmetrical order.