WPA project and history map files, 1900-1980, 1935-1938 (bulk)

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WPA project and history map files, 1900-1980, 1935-1938 (bulk)

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History of Queens documented by research notes, pamphlets, news clippings, photographs, and photocopies of old documents beginning in 1670, compiled primarily by the WPA. Records include information about original landowners of Queens, genealogy, industries, historic buildings, and topography and geography of the borough. Historical data file contains a brief synopsis of information on a particular subject, and usually the source from which it was taken. Most of the material concerns the colonial period. Occasional reference is made to related history map file.

22.5 cubic ft.

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New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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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...

Queens (New York, N.Y.). Topographical Bureau

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Monuments are points used to establish the horizontal control in surveying areas. From the description of Eighty foot monument sheets, [ca. 1910-1911]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155479977 Legal files concerned with transfer of private property to New York City. From the description of Title drawers, 1903-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155480889 Bench marks are points used to establish vertical control in surveying areas. From the d...