Works Progress Administration : Federal Art Project photographs, ca. 1930-ca. 1940.

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Works Progress Administration : Federal Art Project photographs, ca. 1930-ca. 1940.

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Black and white photograph collection documents several art projects sponsored by the WPA in the 1930's: Federal Art Project in Illinois; Index of American Design; the South Side [Chicago] Community Art Center; and the Illinois Craft project. Included are images of easel paintings, sculpture, murals, and decorative arts.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 portfolio)

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8310969

Aurora University, Phillips 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...

South Side Community Art Center

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Federal Art Project (Ill.)

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Federal Art Project

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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...

Federal Music Project Orchestra.

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Index of American Design

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The Index of American Design was a part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, which gathered information on significant artifacts in 35 states in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Texas the effort was headquartered in San Antonio. Original watercolors of the artifacts were housed at the National Gallery of Art. From the description of Index of American Design Texas artifacts records collection 1937-1956. (University of Texas Libraries). W...

Illinois Craft Project.

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