Public Works Administration Records, 1937-1940.

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Public Works Administration Records, 1937-1940.

Public Works Administration records include a manual (1938), various circulars (1938-1939), correspondence (1938-1940), and project descriptions (1938-1940).

19 Folders.

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Michigan State University. Architect.

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The Public Works Administration was a federally-funded project to create work (primarily construction) for unemployed men in the depression-burdened 1930's. In cooperation with Michigan State University, the PWA handled numerous building projects on campus between 1938 and 1940. From the description of Public Works Administration Records, 1937-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389403 ...

Michigan State University

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Michigan State University was established in 1855, and by 1862, it stood as the nation’s premier land-grant university. Over the decades, the university has continued to be a model of what a land-grant university can and should do. As a university of, for and by the people, Michigan State University began a long tradition of empowering people through educational opportunity....

United States. Public Works Administration

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The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935 and construction takes place from 1939-1941; power generation begins in 1942. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened i...