Photo: 8 November 2018.
FEAPW plaque mounted in the entrance of the New Mexico Tech Gymnasium:
"New Mexico School of Mines Gymnasium - Federal Emergency Administration of
Public Works - Project No. 5127". FEAPW was the original name for the Public
Works Administration (PWA).[1]
References
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Records of the Public Works Administration [PWA], U.S. National
Archives Guide to Federal Records website, accessed 28 November 2018:
"FEAPW established by EO 6174, June 16, 1933, pursuant to the National
Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), same date, to prepare a
comprehensive public works program. Renamed PWA and placed under Federal
Works Agency, coordinating agency for federal public works activities, by
Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939. PWA abolished,
1943. SEE 135.1."
- National
Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, Virginia Commonwealth University
Libraries Social Welfare History Project, website accessed 28 November 2018.
- Public
Works Administration (PWA), 1933-1943, Living New Deal website,
accessed 28 November 2018.