General correspondence, 1925-1936.

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General correspondence, 1925-1936.

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Correspondence regarding the administration of Executive Council offices and programs, investments, timber sale and harvesting, management of state lands and wildlife, improvements to the State Capitol area and other public properties, and related matters. The 1936 correspondence includes some Works Progress Administration project proposals.

2.7 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Minnesota. Executive Council

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...