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17 June 2013 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge join members of the royal family and Knights Garter on a procession from the Castle to St Georges Chapel for the annual service in the annual Garter Ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England. (c) Ian Vogler - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Kate Middleton at Royal Variety Performance

Image: WPA Pool/Getty Images

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The wading pool, Carmansville Playground, July 1935. Carmansville was an old name for the West Side neighborhood extending from 140th Street, just north of City College, to 158th Street. The area is now known as Hamilton Heights (southern part) and Sugar Hill (northern part).

This new era of active recreation was thanks to the Departments of Parks harnessing the labor force of the Works Progress Administration, which employed millions of jobless people to carry out public works projects.

Photo: NYC Parks Dep't via the Daily Mail

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Diamonds are Forever Charity Gala, 2016 with David Mills and The Countess of Wessex Photo credit: WPA Pool

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British Royal Family - The Prince of Wales, visits the British Red Cross at British Red Cross HQ in London, England. (Photo by Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty Images) | February 20, 2024

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On a hot summer day in New York City, children turn a Lower East Side WPA excavation site into a pool using water from a fire hydrant, 1936

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Prince of Wales Celebrates Young Creatives With BAFTA and The Royal African Society

Prince William speaks to Andy Serkis, Celia Imrie, Stephen Merchant, Mircea Monroe, and BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip during an event co-hosted by BAFTA and the Royal African Society, celebrating young creatives and highlighting the importance of support to young people in the film, games and television industries at BAFTA on 9 October 2024 in London, England.

📸: Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool / Getty Images

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Princess Anne, Sir Tim and Duke of Kent at the Garden Party to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of RNLI.

📸: WPA Pool

[ifreakingloveroyals]

6 May 2023 | King Charles III stands after being crowned during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, in London, England. The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today. Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. (c) Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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15 May 2023 The Duke of Edinburgh, Patron, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, held Receptions in the garden of Buckingham Palace for young people who have achieved the Gold Standard in the Award. 📸: Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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🇬🇧21 February: The Princess of Wales speaks with residents and staff at the Oxford House Nursing Home
📸 Hannah McKay - WPA Pool, Getty -- Eostre

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The Prince And Princess Of Wales Attend The St. Patrick's Day Parade

ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND - MARCH 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales on stage during the St. Patrick's Day Parade at Mons Barracks on March 17, 2023 in Aldershot, England. Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the parade for the first time as Colonel of the Regiment succeeding The Prince of Wales, the outgoing Colonel. (Photo by Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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For those who saw Brian's IG post from earlier and were wondering what it was all about... well, here's your answer!

"[King Charles] was speaking at the Animal Ball, a gala event to support the Elephant Family charity founded by Queen Camilla’s late brother Mark Shand.

This year’s masked ball, held in the gardens at Lancaster House, central London, was billed as a celebration of indigenous communities and included life-sized elephant sculptures as a backdrop.

[...] Musician Sir Brian May, his actress wife Anita Dobson and author Jilly Cooper also attended." – The Evening Standard

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The pictures below were taken at a Space Sustainability Reception held at Buckingham Palace, also today.

©️ WPA Pool, Tim P. Whitby, Eamonn M. McCormack

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Milwaukee Handicraft Monday

The Milwaukee Handicraft Project (MHP) of the Wisconsin WPA produced several block-printed and handbound books for children in the late 1930s. Among them was this title, At the Zoo, A Book of Block-Prints, with blocks cut by Milwaukee-area artist Kendrick Bell (1913-2004) and the book printed and bound by specially-trained, but formerly unemployed and unskilled Milwaukee-area women laborers. The MHP was highly successful at hiring and training around 5,000 people in total throughout its seven year existence during the Great Depression.  

At the Zoo is about animals at the Washington Park Zoo, situated on land designed by famed American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The zoo opened in 1892, but by the time this book was produced, the park had become a little worse for wear. Planning for a newly-designed zoo began in 1942, and fundraising began in earnest in 1956. The new zoo opened in 1958 as the Milwaukee County Zoo, which is still in operation today. Perhaps its most famous resident was Samson (1949–1981), a male silverback western lowland gorilla. Today the zoo is known for several exhibits, but it is perhaps most well-known for the visitor-favorite Humboldt Penguin Pool at the zoo’s main entrance, and for its population of bonobos, the largest outside their native home in the Congo.

Shown here are a few of the animals Kendrick Bell would have encountered at the zoo in the late 1930s, although we think Old Mr. Leopard gets a bad rap!

View more posts about MHP and the Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA.

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British Royal Family - The Prince of Wales, visits the British Red Cross at British Red Cross HQ in London, England. (Photo by Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty Images) | February 20, 2024