1. CCC in Idaho Clearing logs in the Boise National Forest CCC Outhouse
Stacy Peterson

2. CCC in Idaho Clearing logs in the Boise National Forest CCC Outhouse
Stacy Peterson
On the road to Atlanta

3. Building Shaffer Butte Road

5. Gallagher Camp, by Banks, ID

6. The New Deal “work” philosophy
“Give a man a dole and you save his body and destroy his spirit; give him a job and pay him an assured wage, and you save both the body and the spirit.” Harry Hopkins
Didn’t want to compete with private employers
No dependence on government programs
“The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief.” FDR
More $ on wages, less $ on tools and materials

7. The Works Progress Administration

8. The W.P.A. Huge impact throughout the U.S.
8 million Americans (20% of America‘s work force!) employed over the life of WPA
$11 billion spent on workers and projects ‘35-’43
8000 parks, 5900 schools, 2500 hospitals, 350 airports, 570,000 miles of roads
Changed the interaction between government and citizens
Created the concept of a “public good”

9. WPA 1935

10. WPA: Federal Writer’s Project
Plays, slave histories, music
Most famous for fabulous state guides
Idaho’s was the first finished and published by the WPA in 1937!

11. WPA: Federal Arts Project
Theater, music, murals, paintings
Often working class related, proletarian art
It’s purpose questioned during the Depression
Criticized as being too radical

12. Federal Arts Project Mural at Coit Tower, SF What’s the message?

13. Works Progress Administration
Projects Around Idaho

14. Nampa-Meridian Canal Construction

15. Retaining wall, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Lowell

16. Challis Lookout 1948

17. Brundage Lookout

18. Trinity Mountain Lookout, Mountain Home

19. East Mountain Lookout, Cascade

20. Lochsa Ranger Station