Historical records survey reports, 1934-1940.

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Historical records survey reports, 1934-1940.

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Preliminary reports on the holdings of the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Berks County, the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, and the Historical Society of Frankford, by the workers of the Federal Civil Works Administration; reports on the records of some older Philadelphia business houses and on the municipal records of Norristown, Pottstown, and Conshohocken; workers' manuals, 1940s, of the Works Progress Administration; lists of records found in preliminary surveys of Philadelphia by the Federal Civil Works Administration, 1934; and list of city and county records of Philadelphia prepared by the Works Progress Administration, 1938.

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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...

American Philosophical Society

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Historical Society of Berks County

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Historical Society of Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society

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United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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