WPA Diorama at State Museum of Pennsylvania

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on WPA Diorama at State Museum of Pennsylvania Under the auspices of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, specifically the Works Progress Administration (WPA), approximately one million objects for use as visual aids in the classroom had been produced by 1939 by Pennsylvania’s Museum Extension Program (MEP). From 1935 to 1943, the MEP churned out costume plates, prints, lantern slides, architectural models, dioramas, puzzles, puppets,...
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