American guide series project files, 1935-1941.

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American guide series project files, 1935-1941.

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These records contain information on counties collected for the guides. The subjects for each county may include archaeology, the armed forces, biography, climate, clubs, fairs, folklore, geology, geography, ghosts, health, history, horses, hotels, industry, taxes, libraries, markets, monuments, museums, paleontology, population, race relations, recreation, social work, sports, statistics, superstitions, topography, and transportation.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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United States. Works Progress Administration. Kentucky.

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Federal Writers' Project. Kentucky.

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The AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES was planned as a travel guide to the United States, which would include information on commerce, conservation, geography, history, the humanities, and the military. Although the GUIDE was not published in the five regional volumes originally planned, several states and localities produced publications from the information gathered. KENTUCKY: A GUIDE TO THE BLUEGRASS STATE was published in 1939. Other Kentucky works in the series included THE OLD...