Federal Music Project records
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Federal Music Project (Pa.)
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Federally funded music project of the Works Progress Administration. The Pan American Union worked with the Federal Music Project and developed projects like the music-copying project. The Philadelphia unit of the copying project reproduced scores of Latin-American compositions which were deposited in the Edwin A. Fleischer collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia. From the description of Federal Music Project records, 1934-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...
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...
Kahn, Emily Mason.
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Administrator, Federal Music Project; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Emily Mason Kahn, 1965 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007086 From the description of Emily Mason Kahn interview, 1965 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194497 Emily Mason Kahn was an administrator on Federal Music Project from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Emily Mason Kahn, 1965 Jan. 27. (Unkno...
Federal Music Project (U.S.)
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The prime objective of the Federal Music Project (1935-1939) and the subsequent WPA Music Program (1939-1943) was "...to give employment to professional musicians registered on the relief rolls." The project employed these musicians as instrumentalists, singers, concert performers and teachers of music. The general purpose of the Music Project was to establish high standards of musicianship, to rehabilitate musicians by assisting them to become self-supporting, to retrain musicians and to educat...
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...
