Marta Weigle Collection, 1946-1999

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...

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

New Mexico Folklore Society

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Established in the spring of 1931, the purpose of the Society is to collect and preserve New Mexico folklore. The Society has sponsored many exhibits, lectures, folklore festivals, and publications. From 1944 until 1946, members participated in a project for the American Dialect Society, which was to collect proverbial sayings in English found in both written and oral traditions in New Mexico. In 1947, the Society began publication of the New Mexico Folklore Record . From the guide t...

Boyd, E. (Elizabeth), 1903-1974

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Museum curator (Santa Fe, N.M.). From the description of E. Boyd memoirs, 1963 November 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502604 E. Boyd helped to establish the Rio Grande Painters (1933-1936) and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. She worked as a researcher and artist for the W.P.A (Works Progress Administration) Spanish Colonial Design Portfolio and in 1951 became curator of the Spanish Colonial Art Department of the Museum of New Mexico. From the descriptio...

Briggs, Charles L., 1953-....

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...

Fred Harvey Firm

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Fred Harvey (1835-1901) began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1878. In 1889, the Railway gave Harvey exclusive rights to manage and operate his eating houses, lunch stands, and hotel facilities upon the Santa Fe's railroads west of the Missouri River. The Harvey Houses took pride in their first class food, service, and cleanliness. From the description of Fred Harvey hotels collection, 1896-1945. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29699443 ...

Cassidy, Ina Sizer, 1869-1965.

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Ina Sizer Cassidy was the director of the Federal Writers Project in New Mexico. She and her husband, Gerald Cassidy, were part of the Santa Fe arts community. From the description of Ina Sizer Cassidy photograph collection [graphic]. 1947-1949. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37995716 Ina Sizer Cassidy, a prominent member of the community was born on a ranch in Colorado. She moved to Santa Fe in January, 1912. She died in 1965. She was the wife of painter Ger...

United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...

C. de Baca, Elba

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Weigle, Marta, 1944-

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Marta Weigle (1944-) is a professor of English, Anthropolgy, and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She was born in Wisconsin on July 3, 1944. She graduated cum laude in Social Relations from Harvard University, June 1965 and received her doctorate in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in August 1971. She has written many articles and books on the southwest, its culture, tourism, mythology, hispanic village life and art, the Penitentes, New Mexico writers, a...

Brown, Lorin W., 1900-

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Lorin Brown was a noted collector and writer of northern New Mexico folklore and was part of the WPA Writers Project. From the description of Lorin Brown Family Papers. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 47958686 ...