On Works Progress Administration flood relief activities in Wheeling, West Virginia, WPA units shovel mud from streets into trucks and wash the streets. Cellars and basements are pumped out. Lime is spread on sewage. Usable goods are sorted from debris. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and WPA food kitchens dispense food to refugees and relief workers. Citizens are rescued by rowboat and taken to WPA relief centers.

National Archives Identifier: 12324

Local Identifier: 69.8

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

* 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