On flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania. Flood-damaged goods are shoveled out of stores in Sharpsburg. Debris and mud are cleaned from streets and dumped in the Allegheny River. Safety instructions are posted on telephone poles in McKees Rocks. Water is distributed by gasoline trucks. Salvation Army units dispense food to WPA workers. Flood-battered furniture is removed from New Kensington homes. Flood waters stand in Johnstown streets. An inclined railway carries citizens up a hill. WPA workers rescue stranded citizens by canoes and rowboats in Harrisburg.

National Archives Identifier: 12317

Local Identifier: 69.1

* Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent)

* From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937

* Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944

* Level of Description: Item

* Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

* This item was produced or created: 1936

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937

* General Note(s): Subject summary is available.

* Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Sound Type: Sound

* Accession Number(s): 330

* Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): Works Progress Administration. (05/06/1935 - 07/01/1939), Producer