Records of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research, 1934-1962.

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Records of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research, 1934-1962.

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Files of Professor William Sumner Jenkins, Director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research. The material prior to 1941 consists of Jenkins's correspondence as professor of constitutional law in the University of North Carolina's Dept. of Political Science. These files also contain materials on Jenkins's WPA project to collect the legislative records of the states. In 1941, the WPA project was incorporated into the Library of Congress-University of North Carolina project to produce "The Records of the States of the United States of America."

About 1000 items (1.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Political Science.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research

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The University of North Carolina's Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research undertook a joint venture with the Library of Congress to collect and microfilm the early records of the states and to make this source material widely accessible. The resulting microfilm publication is "The Records of the States of the United States of America." Professor William Sumner Jenkins was Director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research from its establishment in 1941 until his retiremen...

Jenkins, William Sumner, 1902-1978

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William Sumner Jenkins (1902-1978), director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research at the University of North Carolina. From the description of William Sumner Jenkins papers, 1940s-1960s [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46547932 From the guide to the William Sumner Jenkins Papers, ., 1940s-1960s, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...