Oral history interview, 1982.

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Oral history interview, 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70964586

Interview with Brooks, at Ellsworth, Me., about her early life and work for WPA projects during the Depression and afterwards.

1 audiotape (1.5 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8056188

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Maine Women During the Depression and W.W. II Project

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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...

Winkelman, Suzanne

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Brooks, Marion

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Brooks was a captain with Company I of the 8th Kansas Regiment during the Civil War. He later served as a representative to the Iowa legislature from the 53rd district (Boone County) in the 24th and 25th General Assemblies. From the description of Marion Brooks papers, 1863-1930. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 80179371 ...