Financial ledgers and journals, 1935-1942.

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Financial ledgers and journals, 1935-1942.

These records document the financial aspects of various Work Projects Administration programs in Kentucky. The records include project registers, sponsors expenditure registers, administration expense registers, ledger sheets by account title, fund control registers, encumbrance registers, inventory journals, and warehouse ledgers.

44 microfilm reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6693723

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United States. Works Progress Administration. Kentucky

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United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky

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The Civil Works Administration (CWA), created by executive order on November 9, 1933, was a short-term experiment in work relief. Its general goal was to provide temporary work for needy unemployed during the winter of 1933-1934. Four million people were employed by CWA work relief projects before its close in March, 1934. Partly due to the success of CWA, a Works Division was established in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to guide states in administering additional work relief proje...