Records, 1928-1941 (inclusive).

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Records, 1928-1941 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006670

The collection includes minutes of the board, reports to the board, studies and interviews on chemistry, banking, dietetics, home economics, and other fields, and studies and reports, carried out in cooperation with Works Progress Administration project 2132 and the League of Women Voters, on Connecticut and Rhode Island state governments.

1.75 linear ft.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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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...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Institute of Women's Professional Relations

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The Institute was established in 1928 in New London, CT, to raise the level and number of women in professional positions. From the description of Records, 1928-1941 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006670 ...