Wisconsin community sanitation program records, 1935-1942.

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Wisconsin community sanitation program records, 1935-1942.

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Records of a program administered by the Board of Health and sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Work Projects Administration (WPA) to bring sanitation facilities to unsewered areas of Wisconsin through an intense educational program.

6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925960

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Bureau of Sanitary Engineering.

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United States. Public Health Service

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