Works Progress Administration collection on Orange County, California, 1935-1939.

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Works Progress Administration collection on Orange County, California, 1935-1939.

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Collection comprises reports from the History of Orange County, California historical and anthropological project produced by the Works Progress Administration in Orange County, California, from 1935 to 1939.

8.8 linear feet (18 boxes and 1 oversize folder)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 7567486

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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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...

Online Archive of California

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Ashby, Gladys E.

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