<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, 34.80561, -84.96722</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Getchell, Maurice</dc:creator><dc:date>1935</dc:date><dc:description>Dalton St. Paving - After</dc:description><dc:description>View of an unidentified street in Dalton, Georgia after a paving project by the Works Progress Administration.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format><dc:identifier>VIS 77.05.01</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ahc077005001a.jpg</dc:identifier><dc:publisher>Gay Bolling Shepperson Photographs, Atlanta History Center</dc:publisher><dc:relation>MSS 522, Gay Bolling Shepperson Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center</dc:relation><dc:subject>Road construction--Georgia--Dalton</dc:subject><dc:subject>Roads--Georgia--Dalton</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States. Works Progress Administration of Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:title>WPA Road &amp; Sidewalk Improvement Projects</dc:title><dc:type>StillImage</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>