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Subunit history.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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United States. Works Progress Administration. Kentucky.

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United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky

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The Civil Works Administration (CWA), created by executive order on November 9, 1933, was a short-term experiment in work relief. Its general goal was to provide temporary work for needy unemployed during the winter of 1933-1934. Four million people were employed by CWA work relief projects before its close in March, 1934. Partly due to the success of CWA, a Works Division was established in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to guide states in administering additional work relief proje...

United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky. Recreation Project.

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Sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Education, the goal of the Recreation Project was to provide a year-round program of activities for young people and adults, including arts and crafts, music, festivals, plays, baseball, football, tennis, shuffleboard, hockey, nature study, hiking, camping, and dancing. Special recreational services were provided for hospitals and detention homes. There were over two hundred recreation centers in Kentucky, located mainly in rural areas. From th...