Records of the Massachusetts Writers' Project, 1935-1940.

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Records of the Massachusetts Writers' Project, 1935-1940.

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Included are records on the following titles and subjects: New England Hurricane, copies of foreign language newspapers and magazines, manuscript on the Irish, data on historical and folklore events, foreign-language press data, Armenians in Massachusetts, Portuguese in Massachusetts, Albanians in Massachusetts, Rhode Island Guide, New Orleans Guide, New Hampshire Guide, From These Strains, Cape Cod Log Book,, State Encyclopedia, Massachusetts Guide (field editorial copy) with geographical and topical subdivisions, Massachusetts Factbook, Jews, rejected manuscripts, exerptsfrom newspaper articles, and miscellaneous.

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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...

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Writers' Program (U.S.)

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Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts

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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...

United States. Federal Works Agency

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Writers' Program (Mass.)

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