Research material on Cook County, 1937-1942.

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Research material on Cook County, 1937-1942.

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Research material and preliminary essays written by Historical Records survey workers include Cook County and Chicago historical sketch drafts; legal essay material on county officials and county courts; and bibliographical information on books about Cook County.

2 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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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...

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...

Illinois. Works Progress Administration.

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