# A Better Minnesota 1937

On Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Minnesota. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and WPA units battle a forest fire. Shows dams under construction at Lakeland, St. Paul, etc. WPA members supervise nursery school operations. Children are given medical examinations. Shows household training classes and scenes at a children's vacation camp. Sioux and Chippewa Indians weave, embroider, and make beads. Pink granite is quarried and building construction begins. Shows WPA exhibits at the 1936 State Fair and fair ground improvements made by the WPA. County roads are graded and surfaced. National Archives Identifier: 12358 Local Identifier: 69.44 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: 1937 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937 General Note(s): Subject summary is available. * Contributor: Producer, Works Progress Administration. Made by Pathe News. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Sound Accession Number(s): 330

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1937
- By: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ABetterMinnesota1937)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.