Bulletins, memoranda, and project descriptions, 1939-1940.

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Bulletins, memoranda, and project descriptions, 1939-1940.

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These records include a "Brief Description of WPA Welfare Service Projects in Kentucky" (ca. 1940), a Music Project poster, and Professional and Service Bulletins (1939).

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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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...