United States Works Progress Administration reports 1934-1941

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United States Works Progress Administration reports 1934-1941

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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. Collection consists of typed, carbon copies and near-print copies of reports on various projects sponsored by the New York Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library which utilized WPA funds for relief workers. Reports cover projects to extend library service to the public through research work, compilation of bibliographies, and book preparation. Reports provide detailed information about personnel and production. Also, two American Library Association reports on work relief projects.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History 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, edit...

Queens Borough Public Library

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Chartered in 1899, the Queens Borough Public Library later consolidated formerly independent community libraries into one system. From the description of Records, 1858-1976, 1898-1920 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155477247 ...

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...

New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...