WERA in pictures, ca. 1935.

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WERA in pictures, ca. 1935.

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A scrapbook of informal photographs from the files of Alfred W. Briggs, director of the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration. The photographs show WERA staff members at work, barracks at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, and a posed group of men tentatively identified as Wisconsin regional directors of public welfare.

28 photographs (1 folder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924541

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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University of Wisconsin. Arboretum.

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Wisconsin. Emergency Relief Administration

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In April 1934 the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration was established as a department of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin (see WIHV85-A2180). It absorbed the Unemployment Relief Department, the Wisconsin Transient Service, the drought relief program, and the work program initiated by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration upon the termination of the Civil Works Administration. The WERA continued to function until December 1935 when, by executive order, it was superseded by the P...

Briggs, Alfred W., 1901-1936.

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