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Audience: Analyze

Here are three posters made by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1936 and 1941 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

The WPA was an unprecedented relief measure to offer work to the unemployed during the Great Depression on highway, education, art, and public programs. The WPA gave unemployed artists the opportunity to decorate public buildings. Hundreds of posters were also created to publicize health and safety, education, and community programs.

These posters were all aimed at the general public, but we can also identify more specific audiences for individual posters.