W.P.A. collection. Historical Records Survey and Survey of Federal Archives office files, 1935-1943.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

W.P.A. collection. Historical Records Survey and Survey of Federal Archives office files, 1935-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133467488

Consists of correspondence, memos, and reports of the Louisiana Historical Records Survey (1935-1943) and the Survey of Federal Archives in Louisiana (1936), and materials pertaining to specific aspects of these projects. Included in these materials are manuals, instructions and guidelines, inventories, notes, drafts, and worksheets for the Colonial Records of Louisiana Feliciana Archives, Church Archives Inventory, Manuscripts Inventory, Police Jury Minutes, and Vital Statistics Inventory projects (all directed by the Louisiana Historical Records Survey), and similar documents relating to various Survey of Federal Archives in Louisiana transcription projects.

2 linear feet.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6820322

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r7n67 (corporateBody)

Louisiana Historical Records Survey

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x08hb (corporateBody)

Historical Records Survey (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb61jg (corporateBody)

The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. In 1935 it came under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and eventually was designated as an independent program under Federal Project No. One. The projects, ideally suited for white collar workers, employed individuals to survey, classify and collect historical records. One program of the HRS was to document American portr...

Survey of Federal Archives in Louisiana

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns4pgq (corporateBody)

Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65757ch (corporateBody)

Compiled by the the Survey of Federal Archives, Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration and the National Archives, contributing sponsor. From the description of Massachusetts ship registers, 1939. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64075283 ...