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President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents.
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, editors and researchers throughout the United States. Directed by Henry G. Alsberg in Washington, the FWP concentrated its efforts on the American Guide Series, comprised of travel guides for every state and for numerous municipalities and regions. The guides contained material on regional and state history, architecture, geography and commerce. Other FWP writers worked on smaller local projects, including ethnic studies, folklore collections, nature studies and local history.
California's FWP produced California: A Guide to the Golden State, as well as guides to San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey and Death Valley. In Orange County, the FWP created "A History of Orange County, California" (1936). Less than fifty years old at the time, Orange County had many living early settlers who contributed information to the historical compilation.
The WPA in Orange County also employed anthropologists and archeologists who excavated several sites and compiled reports and lists of artifacts related primarily to Native Americans in the region.
When the United States entered World War II, the Depression and with it the New Deal came to an end. The new war economy resulted in low unemployment and eliminated the time and money formerly available for the types of projects undertaken by the WPA.
The Historic Sites of Cleveland Survey was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project conducted in the 1930s that traced the growth of Cleveland, Ohio, by locating early roads, dwellings, taverns, and business places and presenting a calendar of events pertaining to these places. By bringing together data concerning historic sites, the Survey produced a body of historical information for use by librarians, schools, and research scholars. At the same time, the project provided work for unemployed people during the Great Depression.
The source of information for the Historic Sites of Cleveland Survey included official records, newspapers, directories, atlases, trade reports, travel accounts, reminiscences, biographies, letters, and miscellaneous manuscripts. The project also used secondary histories, monographs, and periodical literature.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the U.S. government was the major relief agency of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal". Supplanting the Civil Works Administration (an emergency temporary work relief program, 1933-1934), the WPA employed over two million Americans before its liquidation in 1941.
A Works Progress Administration project directed by Milo M. Quaife.
The Works Progress Administration was a work program for the unemployed that was created in 1935 under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. While critics called the WPA an extension of the dole or a device for creating a huge patronage army loyal to the Democratic Party, the stated purpose of the program was to provide useful work for millions of victims of the Great Depression and thus to preserve their skills and self-respect. The economy would in turn be stimulated by the increased purchasing power of the newly employed, whose wages under the program ranged from $15 to $90 per month. Encyclopedia Britannica - Works Progress Administration http://www.britannica.com (Retrieved September 30, 2009)
The Pendleton Sunday School Society was founded on December 9, 1819, to establish and administer a Sunday school in Pendleton, SC. The Reverend James Hillhouse of the Hopewell (later Pendleton) Presbyterian Church was the Society's first president. The Society continued until at least 1824.
New Deal agency created in 1935; in 1939 name changed to Work Projects Administration.
In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. The following year (1935), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration transferred its records and some of its personnel to the Works Progress Administration, which inherited responsibility for the work relief program. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration continued to function until its expiration in December, 1935. The Works Progress Administration operated without change until 1939, at which time the President's Reorganization Plan No.I made it a part of the Federal Works Agency, changing its name to the Work Projects Administration (WPA). The Work Projects Administration was abolished on June 30, 1943.
The Works Progress Administration was a major New Deal program in the 1930's.
The Works Progress Administration, later known as the Works Project Administration, was established as a federal agency by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. It was established as a relief measure during the Great Depression to provide employment to people of both sexes and all races at a variety of skill levels.
The Louisiana Writers Project employed out-of-work journalists and other white-collar workers. The Works Progress Administration implemented it during the Depression as part of the New Deal. Lyle Saxon served as the project's director. The project was active in Louisiana from 1935 until 1943.
The Works Progress Administration was a major New Deal program in the 1930s.
Historical note: In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration conducted a survey to register the graves of Kentucky veterans. These included veterans from the Revolutionary War through World War I. Field workers recorded information from the veterans' headstones, and collected additional information regarding their military service. Nearly all of Kentucky's 120 counties were included in the survey. However, the information from only thirty-nine counties was transferred from the field workers' survey forms to data cards.
The WPA conducted interviews with former slaves in various states of the United States.
The WPA Federal Writers Project was a program established in the United States in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as part of the New Deal struggle against the Great Depression. It provided jobs for unemployed writers, editors, and research workers. Directed by Henry G. Alsberg, it operated in all states and at one time employed 6,600 men and women. The American Guide series, the project's most important achievement, included guides for every state and territory (except Hawaii), as well as for Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Philadelphia; for several major highways (U.S. 1, Ocean Highway, Oregon Trail); and for scores of towns, villages, and counties. The state guides, encyclopaedic in scope, combined travel information with essays on geography, architecture, history, and commerce. The project also produced ethnic studies, folklore collections, local histories, nature studies-a total of more than 1,000 books and pamphlets. Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www.britannica.com (Retrieved September 15, 2009)
Charles Brooks worked for the Federal Works Progress Administration on the Dutchess County Guide for Dutchess County, New York.
The Works Progress Administration was a major New Deal program of the 1930s. In the mid to late 1930s, scholars under the W.P.A. in New Mexico translated into English many documents from the Spanish Archives of New Mexico that were first organized and indexed by Ralph E. Twitchell in 1914.
Gravesend was one of the six original towns of Kings County. Founded by religious dissenter Lady Deborah Moody and her followers in 1643, it was the only one of the original towns to be founded by English settlers. Gravesend was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894.
Begun in 1938, the Fayette Library WPA Project was sponsored by four agencies: the United States Works Progress Administration; the Fayette Community Council; the Fayette Board of Education and the Lexington Public Library. The purpose of the Project was to circulate books to rural Fayette Countians, either through opening small temporary branches in county schools and churches or through a traveling book trailer attached to a car. After running for almost a year with a fair amount of success, the project closed in August, 1939.
Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview.
The Black Creek Agricultural Society was formed by farmers in the Hartsville, SC, area who wanted to participate in an agricultural club. The first meeting was held on February 16, 1860; the last meeting for which minutes exist was held January 16, 1861, although a meeting was scheduled for March 7, 1861.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established as a national agency on May 6, 1935, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a relief measure during the Great Depression and lasted until 1943.
The name was changed to Work Projects Administration in 1939.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established as a national agency on May 6, 1935, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a relief measure during the Great Depression and lasted until 1943.
The name was changed to Work Projects Administration in 1939. In Texas, the WPA helped 600,000 persons to provide subsistence for themselves and their families, predominantly by employment in construction projects. Other major programs included the Texas Historical Records Survey and the Texas Writers' Project. The Historical Records Survey hired historians, lawyers, teachers, and clerical workers to prepare inventories of unpublished records and documents of each governmental unit. The Writers' Project employed qualified persons to conduct research into the state's cultural history and its geographical points of interest, resulting in the publication of several state and local guides to Texas.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal.
The Federal Writers Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for unemployed writers, journalists, editors and researchers. The FWP concentrated its efforts on the American guide series, comprising travel guides for every state. Other FWP writers worked on anthropological and cultural history projects. The FWP launched the History of Orange County, California project in 1935. Funding for the WPA ceased by the time of World War II.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the U.S. government was the major relief agency of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal".
Supplanting the Civil Works Administration (an emergency temporary work relief program, 1933-1934), the WPA employed over two million Americans before its liquidation in 1941.
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