<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa3a3d44-d808-4ea2-8808-bdbc62926d39/2FDEA9BC-CFA0-45DA-B2DB-EACACB4451C1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html" href="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cleveland.com/img/3FBA6DC9-B952-449E-B31E-572AA432E73F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><P>The positive messages and programs of the Works Progress Administration, started 75 years ago, helped create roads, buildings, bridges and parks across the nation. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><P>While the New Deal jobs program is most remembered for building or refurbishing countless large-scale projects, its work in Cleveland ranged from development of the Metroparks to the first segment of the Shoreway. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><P>But the WPA also encompassed such novel programs as the Federal Writers' Project, which produced a series of state and regional guide books, the Federal Theatre Project and the Federal Arts Project. Its legacy is the artwork -- murals, paintings and sculptures -- produced by an army of out-of-work artists for hundreds of public places. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><P>In the Cleveland area, they include the Cleveland Public Library, numerous post offices, schools and Public Auditorium.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/12/posters_for_the_people_art.html"><P>Nearly 500 of them are featured in a new coffee-table book, "Posters for the People: Art of the WPA," which arrives in time for the New Deal's 75th anniversary. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2FDEA9BC-CFA0-45DA-B2DB-EACACB4451C1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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