- Collection:
- Gay Bolling Shepperson Photograph Collection, 1933-1945 (bulk 1935-1937)
- Title:
- Gay Shepperson
- Publisher:
- Gay Bolling Shepperson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 1939-11-03
- Subject:
- Women--1930-1940
Clothing and dress--1930-1940
Events--Georgia
Auditoriums--Georgia
Social and civic facilities--Georgia
United States. Works Progress Administration of Georgia
New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia
Shepperson, Gay Bolling, 1887-1977 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Heard County, 33.29703, -85.12827
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Herd Co. - Dedicate Auditorium [sic]
View of Works Projects Administrator Gay Shepperson (head of table) with another unidentified woman and unidentified men during the dedication of an auditorium in Heard County, Georgia.
Gay Bolling Shepperson came to Georgia from Virginia where she headed the Children's Bureau of the Virginia State Department of Welfare from 1923 from 1928. In Georgia she became administrator for three successive federal relief projects-the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Works Progress Administration, renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1937, was the federal agency responsible for administrating relief programs during the New Deal. Shepperson was the only female to serve as a state administrator for the WPA during the New Deal. She resigned her post in 1939. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 77.68.02
ahc077068002a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Shepperson/id/430
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- 8 x 10 in. silver gelatin print
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
