Architectural drawings and blueprint collection, 1865-1975.

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Architectural drawings and blueprint collection, 1865-1975.

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Plans, elevations, and details of the Manor House and caretaker's cottage, 1970-1975; floor plans of Odell Inn in Irvington, once a tenant house on Philipse Manor, drawn as part of a Works Progress Administration project, ca. 1935; blueprints of the Manor House, 1865 and 1945; and blueprints from the Yonkers Post Office, 1926.

ca. 1 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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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...

Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site (N.Y.)

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Odell Inn (Irvington, N.Y.)

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