Paul Smith papers, 1937-1968 [manuscript].

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Paul Smith papers, 1937-1968 [manuscript].

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Business correspondence of Paul Smith and writings by him. The correspondence concerns Smith's activities as publisher of Modern Pilgrim Press, Provincetown, Mass., in the 1930s, and owner of the Intimate Bookshop, Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1960s. Also included are manuscripts of short stories, plays, and book-length writings on Cape Cod and religion. Of special interest is correspondence about the publication of "Cape Cod Pilot" by Jeremiah Digges (Josef Berger), as part of the American Guide Series published under the sponsorship of the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Intimate Bookshop (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

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Smith, Paul, 1904-1977

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Publisher, writer, and bookstore owner. From the description of Paul Smith papers, 1937-1968 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25696778 From the guide to the Paul Smith Papers, 1937-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Berger, Josef, 1903-

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American author Josef Berger (1903-1971) graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924, the same year he won the McAnally Prize for Literary Composition and took first place in an Atlantic monthly essay contest. He went on to work as a newspaper reporter while publishing juvenile books both under his own name and as Jeremiah Digges, sometimes in collaboration with his wife, who was also a writer and an artist under her maiden name, Dorothy Gay Thomas. Other writing inclu...

Modern Pilgrim Press (Provincetown, Mass.)

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