Eleanor Roosevelt's WPA involvement, Des Moines, Iowa, 1936

ID: 338 ~ Source: “[Eleanor Roosevelt at Works Progress Administration Site in Des Moines, Iowa, 1936]." Image. The National Archives: DocsTeach. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/eleanor-roosevelt-at-works-progress-administration-site-in-des-moines-iowa (accessed December 15, 2017). ~ Date: June 8, 1936
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Roosevelt tours a WPA site in Des Moines, Iowa. This project sought to convert a city dump into a waterfront park.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt
"The men work in the mines in winter and one or two days a week intermittently in summer. This Iowa farm land makes any one living in New York State envious, the soil is rich and free of stones. Each homestead has from three and a half to eight…