Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1936.
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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...
Kellock, Katharine Amend, 1892-
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Economist and editor. From the description of Katharine Amend Kellock papers, 1924-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 673461910 Biographical Note 1892, May 21 Born, Brushton, Pa. 1921 1924 Relief work for American friends Service Committee ...
Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.
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Charles Van Wyck Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, born in California in 1912. After attending Williston Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. Charles spent his post-college years traveling, engaging in literary work for the Federal Writers Project and translating the private journals of Henri Frederic Amiel (published 1935). In 1936, he married young modernist painter Inez Helena Seibert, and the two lived in France for several years ...
