Program and projects files, 1888-1976.
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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...
Newberry Library
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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...
Newberry Library. Office of the President and Librarian.
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Director and Librarian (later President and Librarian) L. W. Towner initiated the preparation of organizational charts for insertion in the annual report. Charts were also issued irregularly to document major administrative and organizational changes. From the description of Organizational charts, 1964-[ongoing] (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 26521516 Reports in this format were begun by Lawrence W. Towner when he was appointed ...
Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894
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George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) was an American portrait painter. He studied in Paris and painted in the U.S. and Europe. His best known works were portraits of Daniel Webster, Longfellow, and a series of U.S. presidents. From the guide to the G.P.A. Healy papers, 1843-1953, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Portrait and historical painter. Healy painted in the U.S. and Europe. From the description of George Peter Alexande...
Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince, 1813-1891
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French linguist and scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mr. Egerton, 1879 June 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270521871 Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891) was born on 4 January 1813 in Thorngrove, Worcestershire, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and Alexandrine Jacob of Bleschamp, and the nephew of the Emperor Napoleon I. He grew up in England, and did not go to France until the 1840s. He was made senator and prince fol...
Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934
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Ethnologist. Laufer was an Assistant in Ethnology in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Anthropology. He made several important collecting trips. From the description of Papers, 1898-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511772 ...
