Records of the Keweenaw County Department of Social Welfare, 1863-1952.

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Records of the Keweenaw County Department of Social Welfare, 1863-1952.

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This record group consists of two sets of records of the Keweenaw County Department of Social Welfare. The first set of records are records relating to the Works Progress Administration and the Emergency Welfare Relief Administration (1935, 1938-1939). These records include lists of cases, informational bulletins, notes, telegrams, letters in and copies of letters out relating to welfare aid. The second set of records are the minutes of the Superintendent of the Poor (1863-1881, 1885-1952, 1915-1934). These offer number, date, individual aided and the amount of aid given.

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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...

Keweenaw County (Mich.). Dept. of Social Welfare.

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Keweenaw County (Mich.). Superintendent of the Poor

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United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transfe...