Data on school districts, 1936-1937.

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Data on school districts, 1936-1937.

For each district in the county there is a (typewritten) brief history, financial statistics, names of officers and teachers, and a map of district boundaries, compiled by the Pope County Historical Society as a Works Progress Administration project.

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Pope County Historical Society (Minn.)

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Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...