"National Recovery Administration" Propaganda Poster (1934)

A window sign for the Photographic and Photo Finishing department of the National Recovery Administration, one of the administrations created by FDR during the Great Depression to boost the economy and create new jobs.

Conceived as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First New Deal, the short-lived National Recovery Administration (NRA) aimed to prevent companies from engaging in "cut throat competition" practices during the Great Depression by establishing fair competition codes among businesses, enabling workers to set minimum wages and maximum work hours, setting minimum prices for goods, and ending child labor.

Although in 1935 the department was found unconstitutional, the effort opened the door for ever-increasing federal oversight of the national economy.