Reference material, 1934-1939.

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Reference material, 1934-1939.

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Included is a synopsis of Federal Emergency Relief Administration activities in Kentucky (September, 1934), part of a national inventory of work projects (1935), a Tennessee Valley Authority report on recreational development (1936), a directory of federal and state departments and agencies in Kentucky (1939), city and county zoning laws, and flood control plans for the Ohio River Basin.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8336327

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United States. Works Progress Administration. Kentucky.

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United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transfe...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky. State Planning Board.

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