Library Project in Fayette County, 1937-1939 1938-1939 (bulk dates)

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Library Project in Fayette County, 1937-1939 1938-1939 (bulk dates)

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Comprised of clippings, correspondence, photographs, broadsides, reports, interviews and statistics, these materials and scrapbook document the works Progress Administration's Library Project in Fayette County from 1938-1939.

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University of Kentucky Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6914104

University of Kentucky Libraries

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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...

Lexington Public Library (Lexington, Ky.)

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The Lexington Library Company (sometimes Association), was incorporated by the Kentucky state legislature in 1800. The company was formed of shareholders purchasing five-dollar shares and was the result of efforts begun in the mid-1790s to establish a collection to be used by Transylvania Seminary students. By 1800, however, the library's function was to serve the reading needs of its shareholders only. A "free" public library was authorized by the legislature in 1898 an...

WPA.

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Fayette Cunty (Ky.). Community Council.

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Johnston, Preston, Mrs.

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Shine, Francis Lathrop Dugan, 1903-1907.

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Fayette County (Ky.). Board of Education.

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