Administrator's records, 1935-1941.

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Administrator's records, 1935-1941.

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Includes letters, telegrams, work progress charts, reports of expenditures and other correspondence sent and received by the executive division of the state office -- the State Administrator, Deputy State Administrator and their immediate office assistants. The correspondence of one of the division heads is separately maintained and described as the Project Operating Division correspondence. The State Administrator and his deputy corresponded with regional and national Work Projects Administration (WPA) officials, Wisconsin state offices, subordinate WPA district and project officials, and the public. Correspondence with officials is filed by the name of the office, not the name of the individual addressee. Reel numbers for this series, filmed May 1942, are 1820-25 and 1851-57.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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