President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to alleviate the financial and psychological devastation of the Great Depression by providing work for three million Americans through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), founded in 1935. In addition to employing white-collar professionals and manual laborers, the WPA offered work to musicians, actors, writers, and artists under a subdivision of the WPA called the Federal Art Project (FAP). We Have a Claim is one of 23 original lithographs that Ida Abelman created for the Federal Art Project.