Works Progress Administration

Dorothea Lange, Matriarch, South Dakota
Artists of the WPA Opens the Winter 2022 Season at Swann
January 13, 2022
New York—Continuing a tradition of offering specialized auctions, Swann Galleries will offer its second edition of The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27 which aims to call attention to the
WPA state guides
Sold: Complete Set of WPA American Guides
September 30, 2021
The Federal Writers’ Project, the writing/publishing arm of the Works Progress Administration, has become topical in the literary world again.
Operating an automatic press. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Lewis W. Hine, 1917
On View: Photographer and Social Reformer Lewis Hine
June 3, 2021
If you’ve seen our new summer issue, you might recognize the photograph on the cover as the work of photographer Lewis Hine (
Robert Frank, Covered Car, Long Beach, California
Photographs & Photobooks at Swann May 27
May 18, 2021
New York — Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, Swann Galleries’s auction of Photographs & Photobooks on Thursda
Marion Post Wolcott’s Waiting in a transport line
Swann to Offer Curated Sale on the Artists of the WPA
January 26, 2021
New York — On Thursday, February 4 Swann Galleries will offer the auction: The
Are eBook Collections Eligible for Book Collecting Prizes?
January 12, 2012
A very modern dilemma was posted to the ExLibris listserv earlier this week:  Are eBook collections eligible