Peoples of Cleveland Ethnic Group Histories Manuscript 1939-1942

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Peoples of Cleveland Ethnic Group Histories Manuscript 1939-1942

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The Peoples of Cleveland was a project of the Writers' Program of the Works Project Administration (WPA) under the sponsorship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the city of Cleveland, Ohio, which was intended as a supplementary text for junior and senior high school social studies. The collection consists of a carbon copy of an unedited manuscript and several short histories of ethnic groups in Cleveland, including the Bulgarians, Danes, Finns, Norwegians, Swedes and Swiss, and a large amount of preliminary material on the Hungarians, including interviews, biographies and a list of organizations and churches.

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