Reminiscences of Florence Stewart Kerr : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Florence Stewart Kerr : oral history, 1974.

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Chicago Midwest Regional Director, Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1935-38; Washington Assistant Commissioner, Works Progress Administration, 1939; Assistant Commissioner, Federal Works Administration, 1942-45; unskilled women's projects; Arts Project; Harry Hopkins; relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939; impressions of many New Deal figures.

Transcript: 110 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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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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