Collection albums, 1929-1989.

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Collection albums, 1929-1989.

Black and white photographs documenting many of the Museum's art collections. The collections of the Dept. of Painting and Sculpture and the Dept. of Drawings are nearly totally represented by photographs. There are a limited number of photographs documenting the Dept. of Prints and Illustrated Books. Other photographs show art in the study collection, returned extended loans, Works Progress Administration program (WPA), and the Museum building. Photographs are identified.

ca. 160 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6768692

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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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...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Photographic Archives.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Prints and Illustrated Books.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Drawings.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Painting and Sculpture.

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Museum of modern art New York, N.Y.

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Died 1989. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Titus, Roy V. : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83119924 Art museum; New York, N.Y. From the description of Museum of Modern Art first loan exhibition : November 8th to December 7, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557713 d. 2001. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Matisse, Maria-Gaetana : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unk...