Connecticut Emergency Relief Commission correspondence, 1933-1938.

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Connecticut Emergency Relief Commission correspondence, 1933-1938.

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Correspondence file kept by Newton C. Brainard of Hartford, Connecticut. Brainard served as Chairman of the State of Connecticut Emergency Relief Commission. The commission was authorized in 1933 to create a municipal finance and unemployment relief commission. The correspondence is primarily with James W. Hook; Harry L. Hopkins, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; and Eleanor H. Little, and other members of the Commission. Includes reports from social workers visiting the poor of Litchfield County, occupational classifications in Hartford, statistics regarding houses and individuals affected by the 1936 flood, budgetary standards for determining eligibility for workers, a two page chart showing commodities received by the Emergency Relief Commission in New Haven. One photograph is in the collection.

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