# Recovery In Michigan Circa 1937

On WPA projects in Michigan. Reel 1, timber is cut and a tourist cabin floor laid near Calumet. Reel 2, Red Cross women in Detroit wrap bandages. Track for the Detroit Street Railway is installed. A storm sewer is constructed in Bay City. Shows a municipal garage at Grand Rapids under construction. Reel 3, CCC units repair a fish hatchery at Grayling (pond beds are dug, concrete sides constructed, and fish transferred). A Detroit street is widened. A WPA orchestra plays. Shows a Department of Public Health building under construction at Lansing. Reel 4, an old sewerage system at Iron Mountain is removed. CCC units erect log bridges in the Houghton Lake State Forest. Women repair braille books at Lansing. Reel 5, a blind woman proofreads braille copy. Earth works and buildings at Fort Holmes on Mackinac Island are restored. An airport building is erected at Grand Rapids. Reel 6 shows toboggan slides at Grayling. A ski trail is cleared at Iron Mountain. Reel 7, school books are cleaned and rebound. Slum buildings are razed in Detroit. Reel 8, rebound books are issued to Detroit students. Women prepare free hot lunches at an East Lansing school. Eleanor Roosevelt greets WPA workers on a Grand Rapids building project. National Archives Identifier: 12365 Local Identifier: 69.51 * 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…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1937
- By: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
- Genres: Sports, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/RecoveryInMichiganCirca1937)
- 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.