WPA manuscript collection, 1939-1942.

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WPA manuscript collection, 1939-1942.

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WPA bulletins issued from the Boston office covering all projects in Massachusetts, including national rules and procedures; report on the WPA work conducted by the National Appraisal Committee in April 1939, including summation of 7737 community surveys and recommendations for improvement in the WPA program; materials relating to the Fitchburg Public Library project, a part of the WPA state library recataloging project when each library was given the opportunity to recatalog, reclassify, and cross-index all its books, including correspondence between Marguerite Cogswell, district supervisor and the library, project description, employee records, production reports, certification reports, and logbook providing day by day report of the work completed.

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Fitchburg State University, Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library

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Fitchburg State University, Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library

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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...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Cogswell, Marguerite

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National Appraisal Committee (U.S.)

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Fitchburg Public Library (Fitchburg, Mass.)

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