Works Progress Administration records, 1933-1943. 1933-1943.

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Works Progress Administration records, 1933-1943. 1933-1943.

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Manuscripts, typescripts, printed material, maps, and photographs document programs of the Works Progress Administration in Louisiana.

50 ft.

State Library of Louisiana

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SNAC Resource ID: 7117947

State Library of Louisiana

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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...

Louisiana Writers' Project

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Louisiana Historical Records Survey

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