Sacramento Art Center records

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Sacramento Art Center records

1937-1941

Correspondence; clippings; writings; reports; photographs; radio script; catalogs; and copy of a WPA Technical Series Art Circular No. 1, FEDERAL SPONSORED COMMUNITY ART CENTERS, October 8, 1937.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6743491

Archives of American Art

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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 Art Project (Calif.)

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The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for the millions of individuals left unemployed during the Depression. Its name changed to the Work Projects Administration in 1939 when it fell under the administrative hand of the newly created Federal Works Agency. The FAP was created in August 1935 to aid unemployed artists, following the prece...

Sacramento Art Center.

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Community Art Center, Sacramento, Calif. Established May 1938 by the Federal Art Project art education division. Was the first such center to be co-sponsored and funded by the FAP in California. From the description of Sacramento Art Center records, 1937-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515180 ...

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...