Under the Supervision of Glenn L. McMullen, Head

INVENTORY OF WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION (WPA) Manuscript Number MS-260 Prepared by Becky S. Jordan Under the Supervision of Glenn L. McMullen, Head Department of Special Collections The Parks Library Iowa State University August 1993

MS-260 1 This collection contains 1271 photographs of Work Projects Administration (WPA) projects done in Iowa during the years 1935 to 1940. The collection is divided into two sections. The first is arranged by the five Iowa WPA districts. Within each district, photos are arranged alphabetically by county. Within each county, rural projects are listed first, followed by those in specific towns. The second portion of the collection is arranged by the type of project involved, i.e., "Farm to Market Roads," "Sewing Rooms," "Stadiums and Swimming Pools." Throughout the collection, the dates the pictures were taken, and the project numbers, if known, are included. Of special note are photographs of a visit made by Eleanor Roosevelt to Des Moines, Iowa on June 8, Her main purpose in visiting the city was to deliver a commencement address at Drake University, but a portion of her day was devoted to viewing WPA project sites. These sites included a sewing room, a riverfront improvement project, and the Negro Community center at 15th and Crocker. Photographs of Mrs. Roosevelt at these sites can be found in file 8/49. This collection was transferred to the Department of Special Collections from the Library's General Collection on May 7, 1993.

MS-260 2 DISTRICT ONE - NORTHEAST IOWA BLACKHAWK COUNTY Box/File PROJECTS BY LOCATION 1/1 Cedar Falls - park buildings. Project 769. (2 photographs). 1/2 Waterloo - school playgrounds. Project 768. (5 photographs). 1936, n.d. 1/3 Waterloo - West High School stadium. Project 1055. (1 photograph). Cerro Gordo County 1/4 Clear Lake - Clear Lake State Park latrines and utility building. Project 2668. (1 photograph). 1/5 Mason City - City Park retaining wall on Willow Creek. Project 3650. (1 photograph). 1/6 Mason City - parking area. Project 545. (1 photograph). 1/7 Mason City - sewage disposal plant. Project 1293. (1 photograph). n.d. Dubuque County 1/8 Cascade - memorial building. Project 418. (1 photograph). 1937. 1/9 Dubuque - Comisky Field clubhouse. Project 430 (1 photograph). 1/10 Dubuque - Eagle Point Park structures. Project 24. (2 photographs). 1/11 Dubuque - Sunnycrest Sanitorium improvements. Project 469. (5 photographs). 1/12 Dubuque - swimming pool. Project 296. (1 photograph). Floyd County

MS-260 3 1/13 Charles City - dam and wall. Project 2032. (1 photograph). 1/14 Popejoy - community house. Project 459. (1 photograph). Hamilton County 1/15 Channel change on Skunk River. Project 2128. (2 photographs). 1/16 Jewell - high school boiler room. Project 68. (1 photograph). 1/17 Stanhope - county maintenance garage. Project 271. (1 photograph). 1/18 Webster City - utility tunnel. Project 429. (1 photograph). Hardin County 1/19 Alden - bridge over the Iowa River. Project 71. (2 photographs). Linn County 1/20 Cedar Rapids - refloored bridge. Project 36. (1 photograph). 1/21 Coggon - dam. Project 293. (1 photograph). 1/22 Coggon - underpass. Project 2103. (1 photograph). n.d. 1/23 Marion - high school bleachers. Project 41 (1 photograph). Webster County 1/24 Fort Dodge - Crawford Park cabin and shelter house. (1 photograph). 1/25 Fort Dodge - Oleson Park bandshell. Project 3149. (1 photograph). Winnebago County

MS-260 4 1/26 Winnebago River dam. Project 2940. (1 photograph). 1/27 Decorah - swimming pool. Project 1100. (3 photographs). Clinton County 1/28 Clinton - deepening and widening Battle Creek. Project 116. (1 1/29 Clinton - Eagle Point Park lookout tower. Project 931. (3 photographs). 1935, 1937. 1/30 Clinton - Eagle Point Park trails. Project 119. (3 photographs). 1935, 1937. 1/31 Clinton - Eagle Point Park trails and foot bridges. Project 110. (1 photograph). 1937. 1/32 Clinton - quarry. Project 1203. (1 1/33 Clinton - stadium. Project 500. (6 photographs). 1935, 1937, n.d. 1/34 Clinton - storm water drain. Project 763. (1 photograph). 1935. Des Moines County 1/35 Flint Hills State Park - furniture. Project 3453. (1 photograph). 1/36 Rascum quarry. Project 181. (2 photographs). 1/37 Burlington - airport. Project 319. (1 photograph). 1/38 Burlington - river front. Project 660. (3 photographs). 1936, Henry County 1/39 Quarry. Project 136. (1 photograph). 1/40 Mt. Pleasant - bandstand. (1 photograph). 1/41 Mt. Pleasant - City Hall. Project 424. (2 photographs). 1936-1937.

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MS-260 6 Jefferson County 1/42 Fairfield - City Hall. Project 88. (1 photograph). 1935. Johnson County 1/43 Iowa City - university levee. Project 98. (5 photographs). 1935, 1937, n.d. 1/44 North Liberty - McBride State Park bridge. Project 239. (1 1/45 Solon - quarry. Project 224. (1 Keokuk County 1/46 North quarry. Project 341. (2 photographs). 1/47 South quarry. Project 91. (1 photograph). 1/48 Harper - city streets. Project 504. (1 photograph). 1/49 Keota - athletic bowl. Project 342. (2 photographs). Lee County 1/50 Sandusky quarry. Project 54. (2 photographs). 1/51 Keokuk - grading city streets. Project 1094. (1 photograph). 1/52 Keokuk - high school athletic field. Project 1282. (1 photograph). 1/53 Keokuk - National Cemetery improvements. (1 photograph). 1/54 Keokuk - riverfront improvement project. Project 2785. (2 photographs). 1/55 Keokuk - sewer, Blondean Street. Project 840. (1 photograph). 1/56 Keokuk - stop signs and stop lights. Project 3056. (1 photograph).

MS-260 7 1/57 Montrose - site of first school house in Iowa. (1 photograph). Louisa County 1/58 Columbus Junction - city park structures. (2 photographs). 1937. 1/59 Columbus Junction - community building. Project 882. (6 photographs). 1936-1937. 1/60 Columbus Junction - grade school improvements. Project 2783. (2 photographs). 1937. 1/61 Columbus Junction - gravel pit. Project 452. (1 photograph). 1/62 Columbus Junction - high school bus garage. (1 photograph). 1937. 1/63 Columbus Junction - quarry. Project 453. (6 photographs). 1936-1937. 1/64 Columbus Junction - repaving streets. Project 256. (1 photograph). Muscatine County 2/1 Farm to market road-building culverts. Project 589. (1 2/2 Quarry. Project 566. (1 2/3 Muscatine - bridge construction. (2 photographs). 1937. 2/4 Muscatine - bridge reconstruction. Project 409. (1 2/5 Muscatine - bridge reconstruction. Project 585. (1 2/6 Muscatine - grading farm to market road. Project 40. (1 2/7 Muscatine - Greenwood Cemetery water mains. Project 419. (1 2/8 Muscatine - sewer extension and re-laying. Project 777.

MS-260 8 (1 2/9 Muscatine - taking up paving and cleaning brick. Project 783. (1 2/10 Muscatine - Wild Cat Den Park culvert. Project 440. (1 2/11 West Liberty - Town Hall. Project 679. (3 photographs). 1935, 1937. 2/12 Wilton Junction - ditching and grading streets. Project 420. (1 Scott County 2/13 Bettendorf - quarry. Project 15. (1 photograph). 1935. 2/14 Bettendorf - surfacing streets. Project 688. (1 photograph). 1935. 2/15 Bettendorf - tool house and garage. Project 687. (1 2/16 Davenport - Credit Island Park, grading and resurfacing outer drive. Project 503. (1 2/17 Davenport - Credit Island Park, lake and landscaping. Project 177. (1 2/18 Davenport - Credit Island Park, relaying of iron pipe. Project 261. (1 2/19 Davenport - Credit Island Park, surfacing drives. Project 29. (1 2/20 Davenport - Duck Creek grading and widening. Project 178. (1 2/21 Davenport - Fejerary Park, construction of concrete steps, grading and landscaping. Project 757. (1 2/22 Davenport - grading and draining Fairmount Street. Project 785. (1 2/23 Davenport - grading and draining Lillie Avenue and Lombard Street. Project 782. (1 photograph).

MS-260 9 1935. 2/24 Davenport - intercepting sewer. Project 30. (1 photograph). 1935. 2/25 Davenport - Lafayette Square, softball diamond. Project 752. (1 2/26 Davenport - Lindsey Park landscaping. Project 183. (1 2/27 Davenport - Mississippi River bank improvements. Project 324. (1 2/28 Davenport - painting fire stations. Project 199. (3 photographs). 1935. 2/29 Davenport - parking improvements. Project 677. (1 2/30 Davenport - storm sewers. Project 684. (1 photograph). 1935. 2/31 Le Claire - quarry. Project 748. (1 photograph). 1935. Van Buren County 2/32 Farm to market roads. Project 149. (1 photograph). 2/33 Bonaparte - woolen mill to be razed for community building. (1 photograph). 2/34 Farmington - Farmington State Park Shelter House. (1 photograph). 2/35 Farmington - shale pit. Project 130. (1 photograph). Wapello County 2/36 Ottumwa - sewer construction. Project 3524. (1 photograph). DISTRICT THREE - NORTHWEST IOWA Clay County

MS-260 10 2/37 Spencer - bleachers at County Fairgrounds. Project 1056. (2 photographs). Ida County 2/38 District schools. Project 3393. (2 photographs). 1938 Plymouth County 2/39 Le Mars - City Park shelter house. Project 218. (1 photograph). DISTRICT FOUR - SOUTH-CENTRAL IOWA Appanoose County 2/40 County farm building construction. (3 photographs). 2/41 Farm to market roads. Project 32. (8 photographs). 2/42 Centerville - high school building destroyed by fire. (1 photograph). 2/43 Centerville - swimming pool. Project 3258. (2 photographs). Clarke County 2/44 Farm to market roads. Project 2990. (2 photographs). Dallas County 2/45 Adel - swimming pool. Project 2512. (4 photographs). 1937. Decatur County 2/46 Quarry. Project 2984. (2 photographs). Greene County 2/47 Grand Junction - high school bleachers. (1 photograph). n.d. 2/48 Jefferson - swimming pool. (4 photographs). 1937.

MS-260 11 Guthrie County 2/49 Construction along roads built by the Highway Commission. Project 1986. (5 photographs). 2/50 Guthrie Center - City Hall. Project (2 photographs). 1937. 2/51 Guthrie Center - grading and resurfacing city streets. Project 873. (1 photograph). 2/52 Panora - high school gymnasium. Project 1276. (7 photographs). Includes shot of a basketball game, 2/15/38. 1936, Madison County 2/53 Quarry. (3 photographs). 1937. 2/54 Winterset - city water main construction. (2 photographs). 1937. Mahaska County 2/55 Cedar - high school gym and auditorium. Project 1391. (4 photographs). 1936-1937. 2/56 New Sharon - City Park shelter house. Project 257. (3 photographs). 1936-1937. 2/57 Oskaloosa - court house repaired and decorated. (1 photograph). 1937. 2/58 Oskaloosa - Edmundsen Park fireplace and picnic grounds. (2 photographs). 1937. 2/59 Oskaloosa - Edmundsen Park latrine and culvert. Project 810. (3 photographs) 1936-1937. 2/60 Oskaloosa - Edmundsen Park swimming pool. Project 1929. (4 photographs). 1936-1937. 2/61 Oskaloosa - sewage disposal plant caretakers homes. Project 489. (4 photographs). Marion County 2/62 Community sanitation program. Project 834. (1 photograph).

MS-260 12 3/1 Farm to market roads. Project 313. (7 photographs). 3/2 Flagler - grade at railroad crossing. Project 307. (1 photograph). 3/3 Knoxville - courthouse repair. Project 1913. (2 photographs). 3/4 Pella - swimming pool. Project 841. (6 photographs). 1936-1937. Marshall County 3/5 Marshalltown - high school bleachers. (3 photographs). n.d. 3/6 Marshalltown - Riverview Park pool and bathhouse. Project 1214. (7 photograph). 1936, n.d. Monroe County 3/7 Bridges. Project 441. (1 photograph). 3/8 Farm to market roads. Project 332. (2 photographs). 3/9 Farm to market road. Project 1270. (1 photograph). 3/10 Stockpile of crushed rock. Project 334. (1 photograph). 3/11 Albia - high school athletic field. Project 189. (1 photograph). 3/12 Albia - paving streets. Project 2014. (2 photographs). 3/13 Albia - relaying brick paving. Project 190. (1 photograph). 3/14 Buxton - shale pit. Project 1279. (1 photograph). 3/15 Lovilia - laying sidewalks. Project 2012. (1 photo-

MS-260 13 Polk County graph). 3/16 Des Moines - bridge construction. (7 photographs). 1937. 3/17 Des Moines - Callanan School. Project 166. (1 photograph). 1935. 3/18 Des Moines - Camp Dodge fence construction. Project 263. (1 3/19 Des Moines - fill over culvert, East 33rd and Easton Boulevard. Project 538. (1 3/20 Des Moines - foremanship training school, held at State House. (1 photograph). 3/21 Des Moines - Goode Park swimming pool. Project 333. (1 3/22 Des Moines - Grandview Park. Project 229. (1 photograph). 1935. 3/23 Des Moines - maps of Des Moines projects. (4 photographs). n.d. 3/24 Des Moines - outfall sewer. Project 330. (12 photographs). 1936-1937. 3/25 Des Moines - razing building on Post Office property. (1 photograph). 3/26 Des Moines - river wall. Project 12. (9 photographs). 1936, n.d. 3/27 Des Moines - sewer. Project 151. (1 photograph). 3/28 Des Moines - sewer, East 18th and Dean Avenue. Project 160. (1 3/29 Des Moines - sewer, East 20th. Project 365. (10 photographs). 1936, n.d. 3/30 Des Moines - sewer, 41st and Forest. Project 637. (2 photographs).

MS-260 14 3/31 Des Moines - sewer, New York Street. Project 159. (3 photographs). 1935-3/32 Des Moines - sewer, 7th and Shawnee. Project 714. (1 3/33 Des Moines - sewer, 16th and Hickman. Project 713. (1 3/34 Des Moines - sewer, Southeast 5th and Hartford. Project 53. (5 photographs). 3/35 Des Moines - sewer, Southwest 30th. Project 634. (1 3/36 Des Moines - sewer, 34th and College. Project 636. (1 3/37 Des Moines - sewer, West 1st and Elm Street. Project 39. (1 3/38 Des Moines - sewing room at city market. Project 113. (1 photograph). 3/39 Des Moines - street improvements, Second Avenue. Project 879. (8 photographs). 3/40 Des Moines - street improvements, Second Street. (13 photographs). 1935, n.d. 3/41 Des Moines - state fairgrounds building construction. Project 171. (2 photographs). 1935. 3/42 Des Moines - state fairgrounds sewer construction. Project 635. (2 photographs). Ringgold County 3/43 Farm to market roads. Project 3004. (5 photographs). Story County 3/44 Farm to market roads. Project 1299. (1 photograph). 3/45 Ames - college golf course (now Veinker Memorial Golf Course). Project 582. (11 photographs). 1936, 1938, n.d.

MS-260 15 3/46 Ames - paving on Iowa State campus. (1 photograph). n.d. 3/47 Ames - sewer. Project 871. (2 photographs). 3/48 Nevada - road to sanitarium. Project 535. (4 photographs).

MS-260 16 Union County 3/49 Farm to market roads. Project 3005. (4 photographs). 3/50 Farm to market roads. Project 3530. (1 photograph). 4/1 Afton - riprap of highway along reservoir dam. Project 879. (1 photograph). 4/2 Creston - McKinley Park improvements. Project 249. (2 photographs). 4/3 Creston - warehouse for high school equipment. Project 2496. (1 photograph). 4/4 Creston - Water Works Park landscaping. Project 2867. (2 photographs). 4/5 Creston - Water Works shop. Project 2328. (1 photograph). Wayne County 4/6 Farm to market roads. (2 photographs). 1937. 4/7 Seymour - water treatment plant. Project 965. (1 photograph). 1937. DISTRICT FIVE - SOUTHWEST IOWA Carroll County 4/8 County cemetery. Project 717. (3 photographs). 1936-4/9 County home. (2 photographs). 1937. 4/10 Farm to market road. Project 456. (1 photograph). 4/11 Breda - curb and gutter construction. (1 photograph). 1937.

MS-260 17 Cass County 4/12 Atlantic - quarry. Project 720. (1 photograph). 4/13 Atlantic - Sunnyside Park swimming pool. Project 2033. (5 photographs). 1936-4/14 Lewis - quarry and crusher. Project 326. (2 photographs). Crawford County 4/15 Denison - city garage. (1 photograph). 1937. 4/16 Denison - gravel pit. Project 338. (3 photographs). 4/17 Denison - street paving. (1 photograph). 1937. 4/18 Soldier - sand and gravel pit. Project 1616. (1 photograph). 4/19 Vail - Memorial Hall. Project 3317. (1 photograph). Fremont County 4/20 Hamburg - City Park excavation. Project 700. (1 photograph). Harrison County 4/21 Dunlap - swimming pool. (1 photograph). n.d. 4/22 Missouri Valley - completed reservoir. Project 56. (2 photographs). 4/23 Missouri Valley - farm to market roads and bridge. Project 274. (4 photographs). 4/24 Pisgah - farm to market roads. Project 214. (4 photographs). Mills County 4/25 Farm to market roads. Project 146. (8 photographs). 1935-1936, n.d. 4/26 Hastings - community building. Project 2269. (2 photo-

MS-260 18 graphs). 1937. 4/27 Malvern - farm to market road. Project 772. (1 photograph). 1935. 4/28 Thurman - quarry. Project 290. (2 photographs). 4/29 Thurman - quarry. Project 298. (4 photographs). 4/30 Thurman - quarry equipment. Project 315. (1 photograph). Monona County 4/31 Castana - community building. (1 photograph). 1937. 4/32 Mapleton - swimming pool. Project 3543. (3 photographs). 4/33 Onawa - Lewis and Clark State Park. Project 351. (9 photographs). 1936-1937. 4/34 Ute - sewage disposal plant. Project 382. (2 photographs). Montgomery County 4/35 Grant - street surfacing. Project 3503. (2 photographs). 4/36 Red Oak - farm to market road. Project 433. (1 photograph). 4/37 Red Oak - laying water mains. Project 3326. (1 photograph). 4/38 Red Oak - Legion Park filter plant. Project 1575. (1 photograph). 4/39 Red Oak - Mount Pleasant School District school. Project 3533. (3 photographs). 1937-4/40 Red Oak - street markers. Project 510. (1 photograph). 4/41 Red Oak - swimming pool. Project 1389. (6 photographs). 1936-1937. 4/42 Red Oak - swimming pool bath house. Project 3533. (2

MS-260 19 photographs). 4/43 Villisca - swimming pool and athletic field. Project 815. (5 photographs). 1936-1937. Page County 4/44 Clarinda - cemetery. (3 photographs). 1937. 4/45 Clarinda - Page County Jail. Project 2002. (2 photographs). 4/46 Hamburg - playground. Project 700. (1 photograph). Pottawattamie County 4/47 Farm to market roads. Project 315. (10 photographs). 4/48 Carter Lake - shelter house and utility building. Project 2897. (1 photograph). 1937. 4/49 Council Bluffs - athletic field, Abraham Lincoln High School. Project 279. (5 photographs). 1935-1937. 4/50 Council Bluffs - community sanitation project. Project 1862. (3 photographs). 4/51 Council Bluffs - concrete mixing plant for sewer work. (1 photograph). 1937. 4/52 Council Bluffs - dinner for WPA officials at Clifton Hotel. (1 photograph). 5/1 Council Bluffs - Fairmount Park improvements. Project 1579. (5 photographs). 1936-1937. 5/2 Council Bluffs - grading 14th Avenue. Project 142. (1 5/3 Council Bluffs - grading Grand and Spencer Avenues. Project 25. (2 photographs). 1935. 5/4 Council Bluffs - grading Lincoln Avenue. Project 18. (2 photographs). 1935.

MS-260 20 5/5 Council Bluffs - grading and paving. Project 473. (4 photographs). 1935. 5/6 Council Bluffs - hill inspecting projects. Project 1759. (4 photographs). n.d. 5/7 Council Bluffs - Lake Manawa dredging and improvements. Project 44. (6 photographs). 1935-5/8 Council Bluffs - Lewis and Clark Monument. Project 426. (1 5/9 Council Bluffs - Lewis and Clark Monument. Project 531. (2 photographs). 5/10 Council Bluffs - paving Rail Road Avenue. Project 463. (1 5/11 Council Bluffs - paving West Indison Avenue. Project 467. (1 5/12 Council Bluffs - raising curb and street. Project 474. (1 5/13 Council Bluffs - unknown. Project 8. (1 photograph). n.d. 5/14 Folsom - quarry and crusher. (2 photographs). 1936 5/15 Folsom - quarry equipment. Project 146. (1 photograph). 5/16 Treynor - farm to market road. Project 105. (4 photographs). Shelby County 5/17 Farm to market roads. Project 303. (4 photographs). 1936 5/18 Bedford - Bedford State Park. Project 1321. (13 photographs). 5/19 Lenox - city reservoir. Project 227. (3 photographs). 1936-1937. SUBJECTS

MS-260 21 ART PROJECTS 5/20 Unknown locations. Includes photographs of the Index of American Design Project. (12 Photographs). n.d. 5/21 Des Moines - Old Federal Building. Project 1568. (6 photographs). BOOK BINDING - HANDICRAFT Monroe County 5/22 Albia - mending and indexing school books. Project 1748. (1 photograph). Polk County 5/23 Des Moines - book binding at city library. Project 266. (1 photograph). 5/24 Des Moines - book binding and repair at city library. Project 155. (1 photograph). 1937. 5/25 Des Moines - Forum, city library. (1 photograph). 5/26 Des Moines - handicraft display, city library. Project 551. (1 photograph). Pottawattamie County 5/27 Council Bluffs - vocational instructors. Project 584. (1 Woodbury County 5/28 Sioux City - book binding at Central Public Library. Project 450. (1 photograph). CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS Iowa State University, Ames 5/29 College golf course - bridges. Project 582. (6 photographs). 1936, 1939, n.d. 5/30 Development of swine farm. Project 4006. (4 photographs). 1939.

MS-260 22 5/31 Masonry retaining wall, Union Drive. Project 4000. (1 photograph). 1939. 5/32 Poultry mating house. Project 2265. (1 photograph). 1939. University of Iowa, Iowa City 5/33 University Campus Improvement Project. (2 photographs). CLERICAL - STATISTICAL Appanoose County 5/34 Centerville - inventories of surplus commodities. Project 1109. (1 Photograph). Clay County 5/35 Spencer - survey of farm records. (1 photograph). Dubuque County 5/36 Dubuque - traffic survey. Project 1434. (1 photograph).