This has to do with the arts but I also think it pertains to baseball cards ( since its the artists that help create them):
From encycledia.com:
“ Like nearly everyone else, artists, writers, and musicians suffered in the economic climate of the Depression. At such a time of crisis there was a sense that America had lost its way and that the country lacked a distinctive culture of its own. In an effort to boost national pride while helping to provide some jobs to help Americans through the Depression, the government's Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal political programs, supported regional artistic activity by giving federal funding to the arts. In many cases this meant that artists could continue to get paid to work when the market for their goods disappeared. The idea was not only to develop a modern American culture but also to rediscover one that was being lost. Artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians traveled around the country documenting and …”
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