Julia Sully papers
Related Entities
There are 3 Entities related to this resource.
United States. Works Progress Administration
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)
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...
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pv6mgn (person)
Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...
Sully, Julia.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz62b8 (person)
Historian; Richmond, Va.; b. 1870; d. 1948. Director of the Works Progress Administration Art Index Division in Richmond. Her great uncle was painter Thomas Sully. From the description of Julia Sully papers, [ca. 1730]-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84555285 ...
