United States. Work Projects Administration. Oregon

The federal government initiated the Historical Records Survey (H.R.S.) in 1935 to relieve high levels of white-collar unemployment. Established as one of five programs under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A., renamed Work Projects Administration in 1939), the H.R.S. employed clerical workers and professionals to inventory public and private archives across the nation. All W.P.A. projects ended in February 1943, and most H.R.S. records were deposited in public repositories. The H.R.S.' primary goal was to survey and inventory public state, county, city, and town archives across the U.S., as well as private collections and archives. The secondary goal was to publish record inventories to make historical records and documents more accessible to researchers. State projects deposited their records in various institutions when the H.R.S. officially ended in 1943 with the hope that the survey would continue after the war. The Oregon H.R.S. deposited its records with the University of Oregon and the Oregon State Library.

From the description of W.P.A. Oregon Historical Records Survey records. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51180754

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