United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981936Form work for the ninety-for diameter digester tank entrenchment creek disposal plant - there are two such tanksView of the form work construction of a ninety foot diameter digester tank, one of two such tanks built by the Works Progress Administration for an entrenchment creek disposal plant in Atlanta, Georgia.The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a federal agency created by executive order in 1935 that provided employment to United States citizens through public works projects and educational programs. Most expenditures went to the construction of highways, roads, parks, public buildings, dams, and sewers. Other programs included literacy projects, vocational education, historical records surveys, and the arts. The Works Progress Administration was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1937. Congress discontinued the agency in 1943.image/jpegVIS 77.08.05ahc077008005a.jpgGay Bolling Shepperson Photographs, Atlanta History CenterMSS 522, Gay Bolling Shepperson Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History CenterRefuse--Georgia--AtlantaRefuse disposal--Georgia--AtlantaWaste disposal facilities--Georgia--AtlantaConstruction--Georgia--AtlantaConstruction equipmentConstruction industryLaborers--Georgia--AtlantaSanitation--Georgia--AtlantaUnited States. Works Progress Administration of GeorgiaNew Deal, 1933-1939--GeorgiaAtlanta Municipal Sewer ProjectStillImage