WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Archives of American Art has contributed 285 digitized photographs from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Most of the photographs date between 1935 and 1942, the active years of the Federal Art Project, which was part of the Work Progress Administration’s Federal Project Number One. Digitized images from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection have been made previously available on the Archives’ website, but this is the first time that high-resolution scans have been made available for unrestricted use by the public. “We welcome this opportunity to contribute a collection of free-use images to one of the world’s most popular websites,” said Liza Kirwin, acting director of the Archives. “By placing these images in the Wikimedia Commons we hope to foster online learning and discovery and to promote an