Federal Art Project records of Adele Clark

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Federal Art Project records of Adele Clark

1931-1963

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Unmicrofilmed material: Correspondence of Adele Clark, Thomas Parker, and Thomas Singleton; minutes of meetings time sheets and monthly reports; subject files on various FAP projects; photographs; and prints, watercolors, and sketches done by FAP artists. Most of the records relate to the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., the Big Stone Gap Community Art Center, and the Index of American Design.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6783620

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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...

Singleton, Thomas.

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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...

Parker, Thomas Cleveland, 1904-1967

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Art administrator; Virginia. Director of the American Federation of Arts, 1940-1952. First director of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Assistant national director of the Works Progress Administration's art project 1935-1940. Died Jan. 1967, at age 62. From the description of Thomas Cleveland Parker interviews, 1963 Oct. 14-Oct. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195699 Art administrator; Virginia. Director of the American Fe...

Clark, Adèle, 1882-1983

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Associated with the women's suffrage movement in Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Adele Clark by Charlotte Shelton, August 15, 1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647919997 Artist and women's suffragist. From the description of Adèle Clark's remembrances of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Virginia, 1964. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 63211388 Art administrator, Federal Art Project director; Rich...

Federal Art Project (Va.)

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Clark was the Virginia state director of the Federal Art Project (FAP); Parker and Singleton were both directors of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. The FAP was a federal relief art program established under Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which provided work for unemployed artists and craftsmen during the Depression. From the description of FAP records of Adele Clark, 1931-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122599800 ...