WPA survey of Bucks County, Pa., 1936.

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WPA survey of Bucks County, Pa., 1936.

Survey of records of Bucks County offices of Prothonotary and Register of Wills and record of the following municipalities: Bensalem Township, Bristol Borough, Bristol Township, Doylestown Borough, Doylestown Township, Hulmevill Borough, Middletown Township, Morrisville Borough, New Hope Borough, Newtown Borough, Northampton Township, Tullytown Borough, Upper Southampton Township, and Warminster Township.

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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...

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Bucks County (Pa.). Register of Wills

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