Name file of the Los Angeles District office, 1935-1937.

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Name file of the Los Angeles District office, 1935-1937.

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Correspondence with project supervisors and district editors of the Federal Writers' Project; with Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Professional and Service Division, and Historical Records Survey officials in Washington and San Francisco; with heads of organizations; and with individual workers pertaining to historical research, guide activities, work progress, and program estimates. A few manuscript drafts are also included.

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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...

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Historical Records Survey (U.S.)

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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...