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During the New Deal, the WPA engaged unemployed artists and craftspeople to build small-scale dioramas used in classrooms across America. Photo- Christy S. White/The State Museum of Pennsylvania

Numerous national and state-based organizations commemorate the New Deal, hold collections or information related to this important era and its people, places, and events, and are involved in the ongoing identification and preservation of historic and cultural resources.
For further information, please visit the following:

National New Deal Preservation Organization
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park, New York
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Civilian Conservation
Corps Camps and History
Pennsylvania Heritage Society
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and State Historic Preservation Office
WPA Records Project- Cemetery Transcriptions, Somerset County

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