Administrative records, 1936-1942.

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Administrative records, 1936-1942.

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Illinois Historical Records Survey operational files include inventory lists; inventory procedural instructions for fieldworkers and editors; edited inventory drafts; preliminary tour research material, probably compiled while survey was part of the Federal Writers' Project; black-and-white photographs and postcard pictures of state and local government buildings; Chicago Tribune Lincolniana index; published inventories; correspondence; and memoranda. File also includes a Chicago office receipt record for county board proceedings transcripts.

3 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Illinois. Works Progress Administration.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Illinois Historical Records Survey

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The Illinois Historical Records Survey (1935-1943), created in 1935 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) located and described Illinois federal, state, county, municipal, and church archives. After operating as a separate project within the WPA's Women's and Professional Division (Aug. 1936), the survey expanded to include Illinois manuscript depository inventories and newspaper Lincolniana (1938). With the Works Progress Administration name change t...