WPA-Works Progress Administration clippings 1935-1974

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

WPA-Works Progress Administration clippings 1935-1974

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317304677

1 folder

Monterey Public Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7324214

Monterey Public Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Works Progress Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)

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...

Monterey Public Library. California History Room Archives

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf8mnz (corporateBody)

Federal Art Project (Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dw29wn (corporateBody)

The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for the millions of individuals left unemployed during the Depression. Its name changed to the Work Projects Administration in 1939 when it fell under the administrative hand of the newly created Federal Works Agency. The FAP was created in August 1935 to aid unemployed artists, following the prece...

McChesney, Mary

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz2jjr (person)

Conover, Reeve.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt2tt9 (person)

Gartshore, Bonnie, 1925-2001.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zd7pch (person)

Kneass, Amelie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ws9zfn (person)

Amelie Kneass was the administrator for Federal Art Project, California. From the description of Oral history interview with Amelie Kneass, 1965 Mar. 28 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458411895 Administrator for Federal Art Project, California. From the description of Amelie Kneass interview, 1965 Mar. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194637 From the description of Amelie Kneass interview, 1965 Mar. 28 [sound recording]. (Unknown)...