Records of the state supervisor of workers education, [193-]-1940.

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United States. Work Projects Administration (Minn.). Workers Education. Records of the state supervisor of workers education, [193-]-1940.

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Records of the state supervisor of workers education, [193-]-1940.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579283

Abstract

Correspondence, reports, curriculum materials, and labor play scripts of the state supervisor of workers education, Douglas Alan Bruce. Contains information about the Minneapolis Labor School; workers education in Minnesota, other midwestern states, and in the United States generally; the WPA workers strike (July 1939), and workers' housing in rural (particularly southwestern) Minnesota. Hilda Smith of the Federal Works Agency, U.S. Work Projects Administration, is a primary correspondent.

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0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6774087

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