WPA Radio Scripts 1936-1940

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WPA Radio Scripts 1936-1940

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Radio scripts from WPA's Federal Theatre of the Air.

30 linear feet; 73 boxes

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6317925

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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...