WPA Statewide Museum Service, Oklahoma records, 1938-1941.

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WPA Statewide Museum Service, Oklahoma records, 1938-1941.

Business correspondence and paperwork, weekly reports, forms, catalogue system devised by Mildred Redding, supervisor, catalogue book, and paperwork, scripts, and schedules relating to a radio show entitled Museum of the Air.

2 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8066345

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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...

WPA Statewide Museum Service

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Federal program to assist state museums sponsored by U.S. Works Progress Administration and its successor U.S. Work Projects Administration; organized during the New Deal. From the description of WPA Statewide Museum Service, Oklahoma records, 1938-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70978459 ...

Redding, Mildred

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