Grazing Industry Papers, 1935-1940

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Grazing Industry Papers, 1935-1940

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The Grazing Industry Papers, 1935-1940, 1973, contains the records of the Works Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey of the history of grazing in Texas.

6 ft., 3 in.

University of Texas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8123684

University of Texas Libraries

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Sparks, Barbara Elaine Heath

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Historical Records Survey (Tex.)

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Grazing Industry

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In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a governmental agency devoted to creating jobs for public works projects. Associate Director of the Federal Writers' Project, Luther Harris Evans, proposed to Harry Hopkins, the director of the WPA, that a project be implemented for a nation-wide survey of historical materials. This resulted in the founding of the Historical Records Survey, a subdivision of the Federal Writers' Progra...