Rural rehabilitation and resettlement studies, 1934-1941.

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Rural rehabilitation and resettlement studies, 1934-1941.

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Reports and other papers filed with the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration by E.L. Kirkpatrick concerning his studies of rural relief and rehabilitation problems in Chippewa, Iowa, Oconto, Oneida, Walworth, Forest, Sauk, Sawyer, Calumet, Portage, Crawford, La Crosse, and Washburn counties. Photographs are of the first rural subsistence homestead project in Oneida County near Rhinelander. Included are images of the landscape surrounding the site, constructing a cabin, and the completion of the homestead.

0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.6 photographs; plus.additions of 0.1 c.f.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Kirkpatrick, E. L. (Ellis Lore), 1884-

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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 The WERA continued to function until December 1935 when, by executive order, it was superseded by the P...