Biographical sketches, 1930-1939.

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Biographical sketches, 1930-1939.

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Includes approximately 1,530 biographical sketches of Stearns County residents. These sketches were done during the 1930s by the historians' branch of the Works Progress Administration. Also included is an analysis of the collection by Marilyn Salzl Brinkman.

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Saint Cloud State University

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Saint Cloud State University

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Central Minnesota Historical Center.

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Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Brinkman, Marilyn Salzl

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