Michigan Art and Craft Project records

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Michigan Art and Craft Project records

1940-1942

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Financial documents; project statistics; descriptions of programs; letters to Charles Pollock; a clipping about Pollock's mural in Lansing, Michigan; photographs of artists: Clivia Calder, Samuel Cashwan, and Frank Casava with their works; and photographs of works of art by Marvin Beerbohm, David Fredenthal, Walter Speck, and Edgar Yaeger.[Microfilm and box title WPA-Michigan]

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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...

Casava, Frank.

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Yaeger, Edgar L., 1904-

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Painter, mural painter, mosaicist; Detroit, Mich. His WPA mural commissions included the Brodhead Naval Armory, Ford Elementary School, the Public Lighting Commission Building, and the Grosse Pointe South High School Library. From the description of Edgar L. Yaeger papers, 1923-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566295 ...

Fredenthal, David, 1914-1958

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Painter, illustrator; Detroit, Mich. and New York, N.Y. From the description of David Fredenthal papers, 1931-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84232707 ...

Pollock, Charles C.

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Painter, mural painter and instructor; Michigan and Paris, France. First wife Elizabeth. Older brother of Jackson Pollock. Studied with Thomas Hart Benton, Art Students League. Art instructor, Michigan State University 1942-1967. From the description of Charles Pollock papers, 1902-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515093 ...

Cashwan, Samuel, 1900-

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Beerbohm, Marvin, 1908-1981

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Educator and painter. From the description of Marvin Beerbohm papers, [ca. 1937]-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545539 ...

Speck, Walter, 1895-

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Calder, Clivia, 1909-

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United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Federal Art Project (Mich.)

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Bergy, Grace.

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Michigan Art and Craft Project.

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The Michigan Art and Craft Project was a division of the Federal Art Project. Charles Pollock was the supervisor of the project. From the description of Michigan Art and Craft Project records, 1940-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093837 ...