Records of Index to American Design, 1933-1943.

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Records of Index to American Design, 1933-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122354181

The collection contains the records of the Southern California Index to American Design, which consist of reports, correspondence, drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemera. The collection primarily focuses on California art and architecture within the 18th and 19th centuries although other subjects and issues are also discussed. Subjects addressed within the collection include the history of African Americans in Los Angeles, Southern California history, California architecture, California art and art history, California politics and government, the Federal Art Project, Native Americans in California, the history of California's material culture, Spanish Missions in California, old age pension plans in California, Southern California Citizens Against 30 Thursday, the history of Spaniards in California and the United States Work Projects Administration in California.

3,000 pieces.15 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Southern California Citizens Against 30 Thursday.

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Federal Art Project

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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...

Index to American Design.

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The Index to American Design was a subunit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. The Index was a nationwide project whose mission was to document the evolution of American decorative, provincial and folk arts from the early 17th century to the close of the 19th century. The Southern California chapter of the Index to American Design (whose records this collection contains) was primarily focused on the pioneer art and design of native peoples and immigrant settlers with a pa...

United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)

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