United States, Georgia, Heard County, 33.29703, -85.128271939-11-03Herd 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.image/jpegVIS 77.68.02ahc077068002a.jpgGay Bolling Shepperson Photographs, Atlanta History CenterMSS 522, Gay Bolling Shepperson Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History CenterWomen--1930-1940Clothing and dress--1930-1940Events--GeorgiaAuditoriums--GeorgiaSocial and civic facilities--GeorgiaUnited States. Works Progress Administration of GeorgiaNew Deal, 1933-1939--GeorgiaShepperson, Gay Bolling, 1887-1977Gay SheppersonStillImage