Reference material, 1933-1939.

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Reference material, 1933-1939.

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This material is generally the result of relief related studies of employment, expenditure of relief funds, and project accomplishments. Some material is the direct result of studies or data compilation begun as agency sponsored projects to employ needy persons. Newpaper releases contain information ranging from statistical data to replies to charges of political corruption with the in Work Projects Administration.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6739542

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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...

Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946

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Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) was born in Sioux City, Iowa. After graduation from Grinnell College in 1912, he became a social worker in New York City with the Christadora Settlement House and the Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor (AICP). He was Executive Secretary of the New York Board of Child Welfare from 1915 to 1917 and worked for the American Red Cross in New Orleans and Atlanta from 1917 to 1921, when he rejoined the AICP in New York as Assistant Director. He headed t...