Leaning on a Legacy Oklahoma Print book highlighting Oklahoma's beautiful

Print book highlighting Oklahoma's beautiful landscapes

Sprinkled with Larsen’s wit and wisdom

For fifty-five years

directed traffic

Leaning on a Legacy Oklahoma Print book highlighting Oklahoma's beautifulThe Great Depression took its toll on the pocketbooks and emotions of Oklahomans who lost their jobs as banks failed, businesses closed, and farm markets collapsed in the 1930s. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest of Roosevelt s New Deal programs designed to bring America back to good economic health. After 1939 the agency was known as the Work Projects Administration. The