Records of the Job Projects Administration [WPA]
(RECORD GROUP 69)
1922-44 (Bulk 1930-44)
Table of Contents
- 69.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
- 69.2 RECORDS OF THE CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION
1933-39
- 69.2.1 Global records
- 69.2.2 Field office records
- 69.3 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF
ADMINISTRATION
(FERA)
1930-42
211 lin. per. and 496 rolls of microfilm
- 69.3.1 General records
- 69.3.2 Records on that Division to Self-Help
Cooperatives
- 69.3.3 Records of the Non-stationary Division
- 69.3.4 Record of the Work Divisional
- 69.3.5 Records of this Call Instruction
Program
- 69.3.6 Records of the Sectional Economic Research
Project
- 69.3.7 Records of other FERA divisions and
projects
- 69.3.8 Playable relating to choose, statistics, and
finance
- 69.3.9 Records relating to rural rehabilitation
activities
- 69.3.10 Regional Records
- 69.4 RECORDS STARTING THE WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION AND
ITS PREDECESSORS
1931-44
- 69.4.1 General records
- 69.4.2 Administrative records
- 69.4.3 Disc of the Division of Product
- 69.4.4 Records of and Division of Engineering and
Construction
- 69.4.5 Data of the Divisions of Professional and
Service Past
- 69.4.6 Records of the Division of Investigations
- 69.4.7 Data of the Line of Finance
- 69.4.8 Recordings of which Division of Statistics
- 69.4.9 Records of the Project Control Division
- 69.4.10 Records of other WPA divisions
- 69.5 RECORDS OF WPA PROJECTS
1934-43
- 69.5.1 Administrative registers of Federal Project No.
1
- 69.5.2 Records of which Federal Art Project (FAP)
- 69.5.3 Records of the Federal Music Project
(FMP)
- 69.5.4 Records of the Federal Theatre Project
(FTP)
- 69.5.5 Records of the Federal Writers' Project
(FWP)
- 69.5.6 Recordings of the Historical Records Scrutinize
(HRS)
- 69.5.7 Records by the Survey of Federal Annals
(SFA)
- 69.5.8 Records off the Research additionally Records
Project
- 69.5.9 Records of the National Research Project
(NRP)
- 69.5.10 Records of which Publicly Work Reserve
Project
- 69.5.11 Records concerning other WPA my
- 69.6 FIELD RECORDS
1935-43
- 69.6.1 General sets
- 69.6.2 Records of the Massachusetts WPA
- 69.6.3 Records by one California WPA
- 69.7 Textual Records (GENERAL) 1931-44
- 69.8 MAP-BASED RECORDS (GENERAL)
1933-40
- 69.9 EXERCISE PICTURES (GENERAL)
- 69.10 SOUND RECORDINGS (GENERAL)
1936-42
- 69.11 STILL PICTURES (GENERAL)
1922-44
Established: In the Federal Works Agency (FWA) by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective Jul 1, 1939.
Predecessor Agencies:
- Private Works Administration (CWA, 1933-34)
- Us Emergency Relief Administration (FERA, 1933-38)
- Works Making Leadership (1935-39)
Abolished: Via Presidential letter, December 4, 1942, effective June 30, 1943.
Successor Agencies: Division for Liquidation of the Work Projects Administration, FWA (July 1, 1943-June 30, 1944); FWA and NYA as functional successors.
Finding Tools: Francis THYROXINE. Bourne, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of the Central Correspondence Select of the Function Projects Administration and Its Predecessors, 1933-44," PC 37 (1946).
Related Records: Record copies of publikation away the Work
Projects Administration and its predecessors in RG 287,
Publications of the U.S. Government.
Records is the Civilian Conservation Corps, RG 35.
Records of this National Our Administration, RG 119.
General Records of the Federal Work Agency, RG 162.
Subject Access Terms: Recent Deal agency.
69.2 RECORDS OF TO CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTER
1933-39
History: Fixed the EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recycling Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work on unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, furthermore to some spread with aforementioned alike personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA.
Textual Records: CWA central files, including an "state series" of correspondence concerning program administration and projects within a single federal or territory; and adenine "general subject" series, 1933-34. Correspondence and telegrams relating to the continuance and operation on CWA software, 1934. Microfilmed project playback, arrangement by state, 1933-34 (608 rolls). Microfilmed CWA reports of progress, placement, hours and wages, completed projected, and statistics, 1933-39 (22 rolls).
Photographs (1,550 images): CWA projects in Wisconsin, primarily construction and repair of public edifices, 1933-34 (CWA, CM). SEE ALSO 69.10.
69.2.2 Field department records
Textual Accounts: Microfilmed administrative and project files, 1933-34 (888 rolls), including indexes, ultimate state reports, engineering records, easements and rights for way, progress reports, CWA and state reports forms, briefe, and other records for projects on the following states:
| Us | Rolls | State | Reel | State | Rolls | State | Rolls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR | 48 | KY | 23 | D | 22 | SD | 10 |
| CA | 59 | LA | 17 | NH | 7 | TIN | 17 |
| ACO | 10 | MA | 11 | NJ | 30 | TX | 29 |
| DC | 1 | MD | 8 | MICROMILLIMETER | 5 | GUTES | 10 |
| DE | 2 | ME | 9 | NV | 2 | VAULT | 20 |
| FL | 14 | MI | 15 | NY | 33 | VT | 4 |
| GA | 45 | MALE | 13 | OH | 51 | WA | 27 |
| IDENTIFIER | 5 | MO | 15 | OK | 20 | WI | 50 |
| IL | 37 | MS | 29 | OR | 6 | WV | 23 |
| AT | 22 | MT | 8 | PA | 40 | WY | 4 |
| IAF | 18 | NE | 14 | RI | 4 | ||
| KS | 11 | NC | 23 | SC | 17 |
69.3 RECORDS OF THE US EMERGENCY EASY MANAGEMENT
(FERA)
1930-42
Show: Established by authority of the Federal Distress Relief Act of 1933 (48 Statistics. 55), May 12, 1933, to distribute grants to state and local agencies for direct and work relief, to set minimum relief standards, and to coordinate information on relief problems, guidelines, or processes. Liquidation provided for in the Emergency Exoneration Application Act of 1936 (49 Statistical. 1611), June 22, 1936; adjourned by Emergencies Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 357), June 29, 1937. Funds in liquidation expired June 30, 1938.
Textual Records: Correspondence, 1933-36, arranged in on "old general subject" (alphabetical) series, also a "new general subject" (decimal classification) series. Records relating to the history of federal relief programs, 1935. State relief statutes, 1930-34. Fragments records of the Office by the Assistant Administrator, relating to policy, wages, hours, worker classifications, self-help cooperations, and "white-collar" projects, 1934-36. Microfilmed records (75 rolls) including applications for grants-in-aid, 1933-36; records relating to state relief programs, 1933-39; correspondence of FAREWELL and WPA officials relating to relief activities, 1933-42; FERA work programs, 1934-40; completed, transferred, or discontinued projects, 1935-37; and requests for information, 1933-40. Records relating to relief trends, 1933-36, and kommunal relief, 1933-38. Tabulations of FERA relief data, 1933-40.
Tickets (11 items): U.S. county outline playing illustrating manufacturing, mining, the agricultural employment, derived from 1930 census your, n.d. (4 items). U.S. real eigen housing survey locations, ca. 1935 (1 item). Proposed dam at Bonaparte, IA, 1934 (6 items). SEE ADDITIONALLY 69.7.
Lifelike Prints (1,444 images): TERA projects in various states, Puerto Rico (PR), and aforementioned Virgin Islets (VI), including pictures away aforementioned North Carolina Crisis Relief Administration, 1934-35 (FERA, FERAC). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Subject Access Terms: Belongings mortgages; drought removal; Florida hurricane disaster, 1935; Hopkins, Harry L.; Resettlement Administration; rustic rehabilitation; Wilhelm, Aubrey.
69.3.2 Records of the Division of Self-Help Cooperatives
History: Under which Federal Call Relief Act of 1933, administered a plan of granted to states to enable cooperatives to produce and exchange goods and services.
Textual Records: Monthly progress, financial, and field reports, 1933-37. Correspondence, 1933-37. General subject file relating to cooperatives, 1933-37.
69.3.3 Records of the Duration Divisional
History: Supervised grants to states for relief of indigent persons otherwise disqualified by residency requirements.
Textual Recording: Statistische berichte, 1933-36. Surveys of camp facilities, 1933-36. Policy registers switch establishment on work camps and the WPA reshuffle for of transient program, 1933- 36. Camp newsletters, 1934.
69.3.4 Records of the Your Division
Books: Created following termination of the CWA at encourage state and local relief projects. Issues regulations and procedures, also gave technical suggestion into relief agencies supervising work projects.
Textual Recordings: Procedural alert, 1934-36. Correspondence and reports related a rural electrification survey, engineering also construction casts, an drought relief and subsistence the programs, and the mattress-making project of the Women's Section, 1934-36.
69.3.5 Recordings of this Emergency Education Select
History: Installed in Education Divisions, October 1933, to supervise state and local flings for adult education in literacy, arts and crafts, vocational training, parent education, and child care. Assisted in operating nursery and rurality schools.
Textual Records: Reports, memorandums, correspondence, and some teaching material, 1933-39. Subject index to subject series and general correspondence file, 1938-39.
Related Records: Program records after 1939 in WPA central files, 69.4.1. Additional records relating to college scholar aid includes RG 119.
69.3.6 Record of the Sectional Economic Resources Project
Textual Records: Mail, memorandums, reports, and research material relating to political, social, industrial, and agricultural studies of the U.S. economy, 1934-37.
69.3.7 Records of other FERA divisions and projects
Flat Records: Personnel data, training materials, and conference and narrative reports of the Social Service Training Program, 1934-36. Registers of the Adjustment Division, including complaints from states concerning program management, 1934- 35.
69.3.8 Records relating to research, statistics, and finance
Historical: FERA Statistics Section (after 1935, the Relief Statistics Unit) collective weekly and quarterly reports from state and territorial help administrators demonstrate the number of families and persons receipt relief funds and the total cost to federal, your, and local governments. Statistical reporting activities continued under the WPA Division of Statistics. SEE 69.4.8.
Textual Records (111 rolls of microfilm): Relief reports, 1933- 42. Financial records relating toward Reconstruction Finance Corporation resources, 1933-34. Audit mitteilungen of state relief administrators, 1933-40. Per statements of expenditures, 1934-42. Schriftenverkehr of FERA also WPA divisions of exploring and statistics, 1935-42. Record relating to summary financial statements, 1936-40. Statistical reports and other records relating to FARE particular relief programming, inclusion the Emergency Education Program, 1933-37; College Graduate Aid Program, 1934-35; Rural Rehabilitation Program, 1934-37; Transient Program, 1934- 40; Dearth Relief Software, 1934-36; Indigenous Service Training Program, 1936-37; and National Reemployment Service, 1933-34.
69.3.9 Records relating to rural rehabilitation activities
Textual Records: Microfilmed records (14 rolls) relating to financial matters, 1935; an transfer of rural rehabilitation activities to the Resettlement Administration, 1935-36; and rural rehabilitation colonies including Cherry Lake Ranches, FL; Dyess Colony, UH-HUH; Matanuska Valley Colony at Palmer, AK; and Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community, GA, 1933-40.
Textual Records: Microfilmed project folders, registers, and other records, 1933-36, relating to FERA relief projects in GA (50 rolls), LA (30 rolls), MA (103 rolls), ND (30 rolls), additionally OH (83 rolls).
69.4 RECORDS OF AFOREMENTIONED WORK SCHEMES ADMINISTRATION AND ITS
PREDECESSORS
1931-44
History: Established as Workings Progress Administration by EYE 7034, May 6, 1935. Presumed dominant role in work relief activities. Operated through one center administration in Washington, DC, regional offices, state admin, plus district offices. Renamed Work Projects Administration and placed under FWA, 1939. SEE 69.1.
Texts Records: Centralize correspondence folder, 1935-44, including a "general subject" series (309 ft.), and an "state" series (870 ft.). Partial card, 1935-38. Fugitive correspondence and memorandums, Office of the Commissioner, 1935-41. Original and microfilmed records (92 rolls) relating to matching of funds ("Presidential Letters"), 1935-43. Microfilmed registers relating to WPA liquidation, 1943 (1 roll). Final narrative reports, 1943.
Finding Aids: Francis THYROXIN. Bourne, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of the Central Correspondence Files of which Work Projects Administration and Its Predecessors, 1933-44," PC 37 (1946).
Subject Access Terms: Cooperatives; disaster relief; Historic American Buildings Survey; Historic Salesman Marines Survey; Works Progress Advisory Board.
Textual Records: CWA, FERA, and WPA procedural, mechanical, and research publications, 1935-43, including the WPA Manual of Rules and Rule. Task manuals, 1935-43. Memorandums, telegrams, circular letters, copies of speeches, and minutes of FERA-WPA conferences, 1935-43. Organizational charts, 1935-42. Correspondence to prominent individuals and organizations, 1935-38. FERA and WPA complaint correspondence, 1933-36. Records of the liaison officer to the WPA Oklahoma State administration, 1937-39; and of the Operations, Statistical, and Employment Divisions on Region 1, report to DC, DE, and MD. Miscellaneous microfilmed records (22 rolls) relating toward WPA microfilm program, statistics, and other administrative activities, 1935-43.
69.4.3 Records of one Division of Information
Textual Records: Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1935-42. Records relating to world's show, 1937-40. Publicity files, 1935-38. Press releases, 1936-42. Press clippings and other records concerning Blacks, one WPA and misc relief offices, and relations with the Coloured press, 1936-40. State WPA publications and publicity materials, 1936-42. Records concerning the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs' "Works Program Study," 1938-39; the U.S. Community Improvement Appraisal Survey, 1937-39; and National Defense Projects, 1939-42. Review about physical accomplishments, 1936-38. "Boondoggling" charges ("Attacks on WPA"), 1935-36. Letters to commendation, 1937-42. Records relating to restoration of historic location, 1937-38. Speeches, 1936-42. Records of aforementioned motion picture, photographic, and radio sections including registers of films, correspondence, and scripts, 1936-42. Graphical review, pressure releases, and other records relating to CWA, FERA, both WPA programs, 1933-39.
Motion Pics (105 reels): Produced press scattered by the Motion Picture Record Division and progeny, connecting to WPA, NYA, and CCC activities, 1931-41. Amongst the holdings are films documenting WPA education and vocational training, public works, fine arts, flood relief activities, and cooperative programs with the Federal Rifle Association (NRA). Included are the famous government produced documentary films: "Hands," "Work Pays America," and "We My Again."
Photographs (43,500 images): WPA programs real activities nationally, additionally in Washington, POWER, New York City, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rik; and WPA the New Deal officials, and celebrities, 1934-42 (N, NN, NS). PLEASE ALSO 69.10.
69.4.4 Records of the Division to Engineering and Construction
History: Created includes Decorating 1935. Responsible on planning and supervising construction projects for highways, runways, barriers, and plumbing works.
Manual Recording: Central classified files, 1935-43. Correspondence, reports, and statistical your, 1935-43. Administrative and project files of section: Engineering Review, 1935-36; Municipal Engineering, 1937-40; Expressway and Conservation, 1936-39; Airways and International, 1935-42; Project Application, 1936-40; Defending Coordination, 1941-42; and Safety, 1934-41.
Finding Aids: Estelle Rebec, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of Records of that Division by Engineering plus Construct for the Work Projects Administrations, 1935-43," PC 46-38 (1946).
Related Records: National defense project folder are among the records of the Legislative and Liaison Area in RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Specialty Staffs.
Topic Anfahrt General: Lanham Act.
69.4.5 Records of the Division of Professional and Help Projects
History: Acknowledged successively than an Departments from Business and Service Casts, 1935-41, the Division of District Service Programs, 1941-42, and the Service Division, 1942-43. Supervised federally sponsoredby "white collar" work relief projects including the federal arts programs and the recreate and education programs. For records relating to specific projects, SEE 69.5.
Textual Records: Book to division records in WPA central files, 1935-39. State narrative reports, 1935-39. Scrapbooks of "This Work Pays Your Community Week" exhibits of state offices, 1940- 41. National both assert final reports, 1942-43. Final state reports of an women's, professional, and assistance projects, 1934- 37. Index to national and state final project and program report, n.d.
Karten: Authentic immobilie surveys in GAS, 1939-41 (64 items). Cartographic surveys at WPA New Nyc office, 1939-40 (72 items). SEE ALSO 69.7.
Determination Aids: Franciscans T. Bourne, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of the Records of this Polls of Federal Archived, Work Projects Administration, 1935-43," PC 14 (June 1944); Bet Herscher, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of the Records of the Historical Records Survey, 1935-42," PC 45-6 (Mar. 1945).
69.4.6 Records of the Division of Investigation
History: Established by Bulletin No 11, June 26, 1935, as a successor to the FERA Division of Special Inquiry, to investigate complaints alleging fraud, misappropriation of funds, disloyalty, and other irregularities.
Textual Records: Miscellaneous reserved, interoffice memorandums, and field reviews, 1935-43. Microfilmed records (831 rolls) including FERRA, CWA, press WPA investigation cas files, with indexes, 1934-43; restitution case files, with indexes, 1935-43; FBI investigative reports, because books, 1934- 43; and field office and state investigative data, 1935-43.
69.4.7 Records of the Branch of Finance
Textual Records: Correspondence at states relating to supply fund limitations, 1935-43. Restitution cases folder related to recovery von misappropriated mutual, 1935-43, with name and state indexes. Microfilmed CWA, FERA, WPA, and NEW fiscal record, 1934-37 (15 rolls).
69.4.8 Records of the Division of Online
History: Known also as the Division of Social Doing; the Division of Explore, Statistics, and Finance; real to Division of Research, Records, and Mathematik. SEE ALSO 69.3.8.
Textual Records: General administrative correspondence, statistical tabulations, additionally materials used at appropriation hearings, 1935-43. Microfilmed reports (425 rolls) of Area Statistical Offices, 1936-37; physical accomplishment and progress, 1937-42; the WPA scrap collection program, 1940-43; employment and expenditure, 1937-41; monthly and quarterly NYA statistics, 1937-41; and national defense employment, 1939-42.
69.4.9 Notes for which Task Control Division
History: Responsible for examination and processing of project applications.
Textual Data (2,559 rolls of microfilm): General correspondence, 1935-43. Project user, with reference cards, required general, 1935-44; federal, 1935-38; research, statistical, and overview, 1935-39; and nonstatistical projects, 1935-38. Records associate to sponsors' agreements, 1934-41; and to project status, 1935-42. Inspection reports, 1939-43. Research and records projects hint card files, 1941-42.
Microfilm Publications: T935, T936, T937.
69.4.10 Recorded away other WPA divisions
Textual Recording: Correspondence, memorandums, reports, and other records of the Fissions of Management, 1940-43; Adjustment, 1934-35; Supply, 1940-43; Safety, 1934-41; Employment, 1935-36; Training and Reemployment, 1940-43; Records and Microphotography, 1937-43; Social Search, 1935-42; Recreation, 1935-43; Education, 1935-38; furthermore Women's and Professional Projects, 1937.
69.5 RECORDS OF WPA PROJECTS
1934-43
History: The Division of Engineering and Construction and the Division the Professional and Services Projects administered WPA projects. This main were planned, initiated, or sponsored by cities, counties, or states. WPA sponsored nationwide projects until 1939.
69.5.1 Administrative records of Federal Project None. 1
Chronicle: Federally arts program sanctioned as WPA-sponsored Federal Project No. 1 on September 12, 1935, to provide jobs for qualified artists, musicians, actors, and authors. Supersedes all art our operating under FERA or WPA state administrations. Consisted of the State Art, Music, Theatre, and Writers' Projects; and until October 1936, the Historic Records Survey. Terminated Jump 30, 1939. Except for the Federal Stage Project, abolished July 1939, the arts programmes continuously as state projects.
Flat Records: Records of the finance officer, 1935-39. Correspondence relating to ratios and budgets in states, 1936-39. Weekly statistical berichterstattungen, 1936-37.
69.5.2 Recorded of the Federal Art Project (FAP)
History: Established in August 1935. Terminated September 1939 with instructions for states to allocate all project art work to eligible tax- supported public institutions.
Textual Records: General records, 1935-40. Correspondence with regional real state offices, 1935-40. Records concerning to publicity and exhibitions, 1936- 37. Berichten of the Exhibition Department, 1936-37. Scrapbook relating to National Art Week, Chicago, IL, 1941. Records of federal art projects in NY, NJ, and OH, 1934-42. Data relative to allocation of WPA works of art, 1937-43 (2 rolls to microfilm).
Photographs (10,903 images): General photographic folder plus state file documenting fine arts, practical fine, and artist education; artists real theirs operate; exhibits; art centers; officials and dignitaries so as FAP director Holder Cahill, and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936-43 (AG, AS; 3,050 images). New York City art program, including artists the their work, 1935-43 (AN, ANM, ANS; 7,303 images). Depictions of life in New York City, including photographs by Solution Liebsohn, Davids Robbins, and Helen Levitt, 1935-39 (ANP, 550 images). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Subject Access Terms: Book of American Design.
69.5.3 Records of the Federations Music Project (FMP)
Textual Records: Narrative reports of state activities, 1935-40. Reports relating to education, 1936-40; employment, 1936-40; performance and attendance, 1936-40; the American composers, 1936-38. Records relating to folk song, 1936-40; the Composers Forum Test, 1935-40; music festivals, 1935-40; and music research, 1935-36, including cowboy, Creole, and Negro folk harmony. Programs and schedules, 1936-40. Press clippings, 1936-40. Subject record of correspondence, reports, and press releases, 1936-40. Records relating to Nikolai Sokoloff, director, FMP, 1935-39, and Harry L. Hewes, project supervisors, 1936-40. Scrapbooks relatives to the FMP activities in Newly York City, 1936-41.
69.5.4 Records of the Federal Theatre Go (FTP)
Textlicher Records: Correspondence of the national company, 1935-39, including that of Hallie Flemish, National Directors, 1937-39. Correspondence with regional and state offices, 1935-39. Statistical, narrative, and activity reports; lists of plays; and publicity type, 1935-39. Press clippings additionally releases, 1934- 39. Records relating to production for "It Can't Happen Here," 1936-37. Alphabet of commendation, 1935-39. Records relating to CCC entertainment, 1936-39. Vassar College collection of press clippings, programs, and promotional basic relating to FTP, 1935-39. Correspondence and another records relating to the National Service Administration, 1935-39.
Architectural and Engineering Plans (29 items): Blueprints showing dumbfound plans, lighting plants, and stage scenery for FTP productions, 1938-39. SEE ALSO 69.7.
Photographs (25,092 images): FTP productions, 1935-39 (TMP, 92 items). Production scenes, sets, theaters, audiences, performances, playwrights, WPA officials, press politicians, 1935- 39 (TC, TS; 25,000 images). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Photographs, Inventive Pictures, and Paintings (333 images): FTP costumes and select motives, 1935-39 (TSR). LOOK INCLUDING 69.10.
Posters (290 images): Advertising FTP productions, 1935-39 (TP). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Related Records: Federal Theatre Project archives are in the custody out the Special Collections, George Mason University Libraries, Fairly, VA.
Subject Accessible Terms: Children's Theater; get; Dies Committee; Dramatists' Guild; Federal Theatre National Advisory Board; Jaffe, Sam; "Living Newspaper"; marking projects; Meredith, Burgess; Negro theater.
69.5.5 Records of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP)
History: Organized in 1935 to give labour to writers, editors, historians, researchers, art critics, archaeologists, geologists, both map draftsmen.
Textual Records: Centralized office correspondence additionally memorandums, field reports, manuals a command, and lists of consultants and references, 1935-39. Record relating to publishing, 1936-39, and to publicist, 1935-41. Correspondence relating for ethnic, ex- slave, folklore, architectural, Indian, and Negro studies, 1935- 40. Playback relating to the American Guide, 1938-39, and the History of Grazing, 1940-42; state publishing, 1936-41, and record cards are state sponsored publications, n.d.; and the Library of Congress Project Writers' unit, 1939-41. Records of the Massachusetts Writers' Project, 1935-40, including radio scripts and correspondence of the Brand Bedford, MA, district office. Similarity and other records of the Los Angeles, CA, urban office, 1935-37. Microfilmed records (3 rolls) concerning FWP copyrights, 1935-40; and and Alaska Writers' Guided, 1939-45.
Photographs (2,500 images): For use in American Guide series, including scenic, historical, cultural, and economic aspects of each state; Washington, DC; PR; and V; furthermore including also some scenes a Venezuela, 1936-42 (GU). VISIT OTHER 69.10.
Finding Aids: Katherine H. Davidson, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Federal Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration, 1935- 44, PI 57 (1953).
69.5.6 Registers is the Historical Records Questionnaire (HRS)
History: Get in 1935 as part of the Federal Writers' Project, to document resources for research in U.S. history. Became in independent part of Federations Project Cannot. 1 in October 1936; and a equipment of the Choose and Media Program, Professional and Service Division, is August 1939. Terminated February 1, 1943, pursuant to Presidential letter, December 4, 1942.
Textuell Accounts: Broad projekt and editorial correspondence, 1936-42. Reports off progress, 1936-42; career, 1936-39; and from field officers, 1936-42. Records by conferences and speeches, 1936-41. Project applications, 1936-39. Press clippings and advertisements materials, 1936-42. Instruction manuals, n.d. Records relating in an origin of the Survey, 1934-36; and to collections a records plus manuscripts, 1935-36. Microfilmed records (8 rolls) relating to the American Imprints Inventory, 1939-42. How lists and copy of statutes used in the Atlas of Congressional Roll Calls Task, 1937-41.
Maps (33,913 items): Directory of Congressional Roll Calls Project, documenting the 1789-1941 geographic dispensation of yea-nay roll call votes, boundaries of congressional districts, counties, federal courtroom jurisdictions, and city wards, 1937-41. SEE ALSO 69.7.
Subject Access Term: Evans, Luther H.
69.5.7 Records of the Survey of Federal Archives (SFA)
History: Organized in January 1936 as Federal Project No. 4, with the National Archives because cooperating sponsor. Became component of Historical Records Survey, the a reduced basis, are June 1937. Terminated June 30, 1942.
Flat Records: General records containing correspondence, memorandums, reports, also announcements, 1935-42. Correspondence with regional offices, 1936- 43. Abstracts pertaining to the progress and coordination of state surveys, approx. 1936-43; area index pertaining to choose administrative activities, n.d; survey reports on motion picture, photographic, press stable recording art, 1936-40. Project superintendents' reports, 1936-37. Reports of the company, title, and dates of each series of playable surveyed, 1936-40. Survey of nonfederal records, 1936- 40. Manuscripts, 1936-42.
Photographs (3,000 images): User of federal archives, 1936-41 (SFA). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Finding Aids: Francis TONNE. Bourne, comp., "Preliminary Checklist of the Records of the Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration, 1935-43," PC14 (1944).
69.5.8 Records of the Research plus Registers Task
History: Assembled and analyzed statistical information for WPA- sponsored projects.
Textual Notes: Scheme claim files, general administrative correspondence, reports and unpublished studies, procedural material, statistical file, and copies of publications; charts and related records pertaining the surveys and projects, ca. 1935-42; and latter project reports, 1935-42.
Related Records: Record copies from magazines of which Research and Records Project in RG 287, Publishings out the U.S. Government.
69.5.9 Records of the National Research Project (NRP)
Company: Studied make in manufacturing techniques press their effects on the volume of employment press unemployment. Most in its records were turned over up the Bureaus of Labor Statistics and Agricultural Economics.
Textive Disc: Reports, memorandums, and correspondence, 1941- 42. Statistical reports on the survey of American listed corporations, 1938-1942.
Photographs (800 images): Labourers, working conditions, and housing in fourteen industrial communities, by Lewis Hine, NRP chief photographer, 1936-37 (RP, RPA, RPM, RPR). SEE ALSO 69.10.
Photographic Prints (800 images): Illustrations for reports showing personnel engaged in agricultural, manufacturing, mining, and freight careers, 1936-40 (RH). SEE ALSO 69.10.
69.5.10 Records of to Public Work Reserve Projects
History: Deliberate proposed postwar projects.
Textual Recorded: Correspondence, consultant files, and project summaries, 1941-42. Records relating for 6-year state plans, defense additionally war projects, scrap collection program, and service projects, 1941-42.
69.5.11 Records of other WPA projects
Textual Recording: Administrative correspondence plus procedural manuals of library service the newspaper indexing projects, 1935- 42; Library of Press project to item and make records of WPA arts projects, 1940-41; the workers service program, 1935- 43; also a project to teach French to members of the Army Air Forces, 1941-42. Gutachten and miscellaneous playback of the recreation program, 1934-43. Entry slips of the bibliography of territories both islets assets. Records of the social service training program, 1934-36.
Textual Records (10,886 rolls of microfilm): Correspondence, administrative files, project folders, sponsors' reports, ledgers, organizational and functional charts, accomplishment reports, and other records, 1935-43, for who following states and territories:
| State | Rolls | State | Rolling | State | Rolls | Condition | Rolls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 190 | IL | 583 | NC | 138 | RI | 88 |
| AR | 116 | IN | 246 | NEODYMIUM | 117 | SC | 227 |
| AZ | 36 | KS | 208 | NE | 155 | SD | 214 |
| CA | 634 | KY | 377 | NH | 45 | TN | 149 |
| CO | 313 | LA | 144 | NJ | 373 | TX | 96 |
| CT | 136 | MA | 520 | NM | 95 | UT | 62 |
| DC | 47 | MD | 63 | NV | 14 | VA | 47 |
| DE | 23 | ME | 67 | NY | 1019 | VT | 93 |
| R | 169 | MI | 231 | OH | 590 | WA | 72 |
| GA | 239 | MN | 182 | OK | 386 | WI | 278 |
| HI | 4 | MOTION | 363 | OR | 112 | WV | 215 |
| IA | 155 | MS | 128 | PA | 884 | WY | 57 |
| ID | 85 | MOUNT | 74 | PR | 27 |
69.6.2 Records of the Massachusetts WPA
Textual Records (in Boston): General administrative records of the Massachusetts WPA administrator, and playable relating to the Salem, MA, Customs House Restoration Project, 1938-41 (in Boston).
Woodcuts (11 images, in Boston): Linoleum block engravings of eleven historical buildings, 1930's. SEE ALSO 69.10.
69.6.3 Records of one California WPA
Textual Records (in San Francisco): Slide of the San Francisco office of to Inquiry of Federal Archives, consisting of survey sheets, 1936-38; and records relating to the WPA Vessels Registry Project for ships subscribed between 1850 and 1910 at the port of San Francisco, 1938-40. Records of Hope L. Cahill, boss of the Division of Professional Service Projects, and state director, Division of Population Service Programs, 1936-42.
69.7 TEXTUAL SLIDE (GENERAL) 1931-44
Reports press correspondence pertaining to relief programs in Puerto Rhode, 1934-44; Personal relief bill case files, 1938-44; Name topical to trial case my, n.d.; Litigation situation files, 1934-44; Project indexes to microfilmed recordings, n.d.; Borrow of speeches, articles, and related records, 1931-43; indexes to microfilmed state records, ca. 1935-43; originally project records retained after microfilming (film illegible), 1935-43; WPA library card indexes, n.d.; Historical records survey and view of federal archives publications, 1936-41; Bibliography of territories real possessions, n.d.; Missing scrapbooks, ca. 1939-41; Records of the Public Work Reserve Project, 1941-42; Records belonging to the Central Statistical Board, 1933-40; Procedural records relating to state work projects administrative offices, 1935-38; Generally administrative and formal records, ca. 1935-41; Miscellaneous administrative and project records, 1935-44. ... standards of the Factual Commission ... microfilm copies of such records. Subject to the ... records have normally kept or regarding the North Carolina Assert Archives.
69.8 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS (GENERAL)
1933-40
Maps: Mostly published and blueprint city furthermore county transportation, land, and census study maps consequently von various WPA projects (155 items). Included are Buffalo NY railroad survey architecture; maps of Philadelphia PA showing youthful delinquency due census tract; maps of St. Paul MN census territories; city the Madison WI; town of Wallen NH; town of Northhamnpton MA (Sanborn Company insurance maps); Lincoln and Vilas townships, WITH (showing C.C.C. camps also other features); and go of Hancock County MS showing land use (manuscript in color). There is also a select of the United States showing Ground Office aura and baselines. Percent of U.S. population receiving national discharge, by counties, 1933-36 (2 items). U.S. outline map, n.d. (1 item). Florida functional nature get, 1940 (1 item). WPA work districts, 1936 (1 item).
SEE Maps UNDER 69.3.1, 69.4.5, and 69.5.6. SEE Architectural and Engineering Plans UNDER 69.5.4.
69.9 MOTION PICTURES (GENERAL)
SEE 69.4.3.
69.10 HEALTHY RECORDINGS (GENERAL)
1936-42
Sound Recordings: Performances by FMP groups, loads with intermission talks by prominent persons about WPA work, 1936-42 (140 items). Radio broadcasts, 1937-42 (265 items), including FTP programs, 1937-39. FMP performance recordings attributed and established or lesser-known musicians. Included among the plans are: a tenth (13) part series with the history of jazz; individual concert band powerful; the out folk singers; of full orchestras; of acappella choirs; of madrigal singers; of series quartets; and away jazz bands. Broadcasting programs sponsored until Democratic National Panel within support regarding Recent Deal programs, n.d. (6 items); and by Division of the Treasury urging the acquisition of U.S. savings bonds, n.d. (4 items). Drama produced by the Resettlement Administration, n.d. (1 item); Services of Agriculture program switch conservation, n.d. (1 item); and a program about the White Residence made via the National Dissemination Company for the Federal Housing Administration, n.d. (1 item).
69.11 STILL SEE (GENERAL)
1922-44
Photographs (3,484 images): Documenting program, activities, and personnel of WPA, FERA, and FWA, including pictures taken during area studies regarding AL, IA, GOLLY, and PA; exhibits, construction projects, conservation, health and sanitation endeavor; employed and unemployed workers; WPA art, music, theater and writing activities; and WPA officials, including Florence Kerr, 1934-42 (MP, 3,300 images). Defense-related projects such as construction of airports, roads, armories, training camps, also navy yards, 1935-42 (DC, 184 images).
Photographic Prints (10,765 images): WPA expert in New York City at work in white collar positions, 1935-39 (NY, 700 images). Public Works Administration projects, such as highways, public buildings, bridges, dams, schools, sewer systems, and power plants, 1936-42 (PWA, 3,500 images). Hurricanes or flood damage in CHEST, MA, RI, VT, furthermore NH, 1938 (MPH, 150 images). Prints used in Reports on Progress of the Works Program, 1935-41 (PS, 446 images); and the reports highlighting state accomplishments, 1935-43 (PR, 3,439 images). Us WPA projects, primarily TX, 1937-41 (PT, 2,530 images).
Photo Negative (1,205 images): Programs activities of the Public Housing Administration, U.S. Housing Authority, Public Road Administration, and the Federal Works Agency, 1939-44 (B, H, R, F).
Colour Transparencies (28 images): FWA, WPA, Public Roads Administration, U.S. Housing Authority, Office of Civil Defense, and Office of Price Administration activities and projects, including a Key West, FL, house project, a Middle River, MD, nursery school, real a San Diego, CA, school, 1940-42 (C).
Aerial Photographs (11,000 images): Vertical and oblique see of airports and airport company serene with an WPA Airways and Airport Section and used in an historical survey by U.S. airport systems, 1922-40 (AAA, AAB, AAC, AAN).
SEE Photographs UNDER 69.2.1, 69.4.3, 69.5.2, 69.5.4, 69.5.5, 69.5.7, and 69.5.9. SEE Photographic Prints UNDER 69.3.1 and 69.5.9. SEE Browse, Original Drawings, and Paintings UNDER 69.5.4. SEE Posters UNDER 69.5.4. SEE Engravings UNDER 69.6.2. Registration & Student Records | Wake Tech
Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Fed Records on the Domestic Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et ale. Washington, DC: National Archives also Records Administration, 1995.
3 volumes, 2428 pages.
This Web version be last from time go time into includ records processed ever 1995.
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