Legal essay material, 1936-1941.

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Legal essay material, 1936-1941.

File includes research material and essays on state and local government or Illinois history. County and state officer items list official powers and duties; and contain legal abstracts and final draft essays. Illinois history subjects include early railroads; Illinois and Michigan Canal, and other internal improvements; slavery laws (1819-1825); territoral laws and government; school laws; early Illinois public land; township government; and Civil Administrative Code of 1917. Enacted laws, bibliographies, and published articles on coal, banking, religion, and Illinois historical sources are also included.

8 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7400174

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Works Progress Administration.

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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...