New Deal Federal Art Project research collection, 1934-1982.

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New Deal Federal Art Project research collection, 1934-1982.

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The collection includes correspondence, photographs, printed matter, and research notes gathered or produced by Barbara Bernstein for the film "Silver Lining" (1976). The grant-funded film and related typescript endeavored to catalog New Deal-era, federally-funded artwork in Chicago and throughout Illinois. Bernstein sought works created not only through the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, but also those sponsored or funded by lesser known New Deal art programs such as the Public Works of Art Program, the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, and the Treasury Relief Art Project. The scope of Bernstein's research encompassed only surviving, large-scale works of New Deal art in public places in Illinois, including those found de-installed but in storage.

2 boxes (1 linear foot) and flatfile materials.

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8331835

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...

Bernstein, Barbara.

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture.

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Public Works of Art Project (U.S.)

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