Peter Mattson interview, 1972 July 23.

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Peter Mattson interview, 1972 July 23.

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Topics include family life and schooling; working at the Isle Royale Mine; the 1913 copper miners' strike; the Depression; the WPA; logging and lumber camps; moonshine and prostitution in Dodgeville; midwives; the temperance society in Dodgeville; and the copper mines during World War II.

Transcript : 24 p.

Finnish American Historical Archive and Museum

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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...

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Mattson, Peter, 1908-

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Onetime resident of Houghton County, Mich. From the description of Peter Mattson interview, 1972 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 174113551 ...