CCC in Idaho

Clearing logs in the Boise National Forest CCC Outhouse

Stacy Peterson

CCC in Idaho

Clearing logs in the Boise National Forest CCC Outhouse

Stacy Peterson

On the road to Atlanta

Building Shaffer Butte Road

Gallagher Camp, by Banks, ID

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.” FDRMore $ on wages, less $ on tools and

materials

The Works Progress Administration

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-’438000 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”

WPA 1935

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!

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

Federal Arts Project Mural at Coit Tower, SF

What’s the message?

PROJECTS AROUND IDAHO

Works Progress Administration

Nampa-Meridian Canal Construction

Retaining wall, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Lowell

Challis Lookout 1948

Brundage Lookout

Trinity Mountain Lookout, Mountain Home

East Mountain Lookout, Cascade

Lochsa Ranger Station