Federal Writers' Project, Indiana, 1936-1938 [microform].

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Federal Writers' Project, Indiana, 1936-1938 [microform].

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Original notes, papers, newspaper clippings, and statistics generated or collected by participants of the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 on Indiana under the directorship of Ross F. Lockridge covering Delaware,Dubois, Elkhart, and Fayette counties.

typescript papers ca. 200 items.research notes ca. 300 items.pictures ca. 30 items.clippings ca. 20 items.charts ca. 40 items.

Ball State University Library, Bracken Library

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Ball State University Library, Bracken Library

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Lockridge, Ross F. (Ross Franklin), 1877-1952

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Indiana historian. From the description of Letter to William Henry Townsend, [manuscript], 1931 March 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816278 Indiana native and historian. Lockridge helped organize the Fort Wayne-Allen County (Ind.) Historical Society and achieved a reputation as historian of pioneer Indiana. He was director of the Hoosier Historic Memorial Activities Agency from 1937 to 1950. From the description of Papers, 1938-1948. (Indiana...

Writers' Program (Ind.)

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The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided jobs to unemployed workers on public projects sponsored by federal, state, or local agencies. One of its programs was the Federal Writer's Project, which was organized in 1935 to give employment to writers, editors, historians, researchers, art critics, archaeologists, geologists, and map draftsmen. One of the projects under the Federal Writer's Project was the American Guide, a series of geographical-social-historical portrai...