Southeastern Imprints Plan, Works Progress Administration, 1808-1970 (bulk 1808-1875).

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Southeastern Imprints Plan, Works Progress Administration, 1808-1970 (bulk 1808-1875).

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The collection consists of 3x5 index cards and index card pieces of paper listing approximately 2360 imprints from Milledgeville, Georgia. They were collected by Virginia Satterfield and by WPA workers as part of the "Southeastern Imprints Plan." The bulk of the imprints reflect works produced between the years 1808-1875, however, several imprints reflect twentieth century dates.

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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...

Satterfield, Virginia Ayres

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"The American Imprints Inventory, a record of imprints from early American books, pamphlets, and broadsides, began operating as a Historical Records Survey project in 1937. It was directed by Douglas C. McMurtrie at the Chicago HRS office. Two products were expected: a file or union catalog of title slips representing the holdings of American libraries and a series of published checklists of state or city imprints within specific time periods. It was agreed in 1938 that the file eventually would...