Two New Deal programs of the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s are relevant to this poster. One is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), whose benefits to young, unemployed men this poster is promoting. The other is the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The programs of the WPA were administered in the states, including Illinois, where this poster was created. The WPA was a work relief agency, created by executive order on May 6, 1935, with the goal of putting millions of unemployed persons to work; indeed, the WPA employed some 8.5 million people from 1935 to 1943. Those who worked under the WPA built public infrastructure, including parks, schools, and roads, including more than 620,000 miles of streets and more than 10,000 bridges. One of the WPA’s most