[Works Progress Administration photograph collection: South Carolina places] [picture] ; [ca. 193u-194u].

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[Works Progress Administration photograph collection: South Carolina places] [picture] ; [ca. 193u-194u].

Collection of photographs documenting homes, schools, colleges, churches, streets, landscapes, murals, artwork, and other aspects of South Carolina; images collected by photographers hired as part of Federal Writers' Project.

7.50 linear ft.

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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...

Federal Writers' Project (S.C.)

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Works Progress Administration created 1935; name changed to Work Projects Administration, 1939. From the description of [Works Progress Administration photograph collection: South Carolina places] [picture] ; [ca. 193u-194u]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 46460798 ...