Research material on the WPA Illinois Art Project

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Research material on the WPA Illinois Art Project

1930-1988

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Research material collected for Mavigliano and Lawson's book, The Federal Art Project in Illinois, 1935-1943 (1990), concerning the Works Progress Administration Illinois Art Project, including correspondence, undated and 1935-1988; writings; printed material, including articles, writings, clippings, questionnaires, blueprints, undated and 1936-1986; photographs of people involved with the Project, undated; and audio tape recordings and transcriptions of interviews with M. Burrows, R. McKeague, Meltzer & A. Osver, B. Shryock, J. Walley/Haden, and N. Ziroli, undated and 1930-1982.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Federal Art Project (Ill.)

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MAVIGLIANO, GEORGE J.

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Lawson, Richard A.

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Fred E. Myers was a southern Illinois coal miner who found a true calling in the art of wood carving. An appendectomy made it impossible for him to work in the mines in 1938 so he took a job with the Works Progress Administration. Between 1939 and 1942 he worked carving prehistoric animals for dioramas for the Southern Illinois Normal Museum. Because of his already existing injuries, and a substantial hernia condition, he died at the young age of 39 while working on The Last Stand, which some sa...