Works Progress Administrationcollection. 1849-1960.

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Works Progress Administrationcollection. 1849-1960.

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The Works Progress Administration papers collection includesinformation related to the history of Minnesota collected and prepared under theauspices of the Federal Writers' Project, administrative files, and a photo andnegative collection containing numerous views of WPA projects around the state ofMinnesota.

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Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Minnesota Federal Writers' Project

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Federal Music Project (Minn.).

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Minnesota Works Projects Administration.

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Federal Art Project (Minn.).

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