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WPA AD.pdf
Newspaper advertisement promoting all the jobs available within the Works Progress Administration

NYA Newspaper.pdf
Newspaper article describing what will be done in Georgia with the allocated money from the

NYA Newspaper 2.pdf
Georgia Newspaper describing National Youth Administration's impact on Jewish teens interested in agriculture and vocational training.

Eleanor Roosevelt Visits N.Y.A .jpeg
Eleanor Roosevelt is visiting what looks like girl's sewing station being operated within the National Youth Administration's Federal Works Agency.

Elenor Roosevelt at W.P.A Black Nursery School .gif
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting an all Black nursery in Des Moines, Iowa that was created and funded by the W.P.A.

Registering,_June_5,_'17_LOC_18556629753.jpg
Young men register for the draft for the Great War on June 5, 1917 in New York City as required by the Selective Service Act of (May 18) 1917.

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Blindfolded U.S. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, drawing numbers from bowl in the 1917 draft lottery, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., July 21, 1917.

Chickamauga Army Training.jpg
Officer candidates conduct weapons training at Camp Warden McLean in 1917 near the present day Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center

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Artist rendering of 'Uncle Sam' character imploring men to volunteer for the U.S. Army

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Three African American women work in a factory making materials needed for the (World War I) war effort and afterward.
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