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The Historical Records Survey (HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States.Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives.
WPA—Works Progress Administration projects and artists in the state of New Mexico. Pages in category "Works Progress Administration in New Mexico" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Cover of the Illinois state guide. The American Guide Series includes books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era program that was part of the larger Works Progress Administration in the United States.
Some full-length books are available online at the Internet Archive. The FWP also published another series, Life In America, and numerous individual titles. Many FWP books were bestsellers, including New England Hurricane: A Factual, Pictorial Record, a rapidly produced volume about the devastation wreaked by the 1938 New England hurricane. [3]
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Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
At its peak Federal One employed 40,000 writers, musicians, artists and actors and the Federal Writers' project had around 6,500 people on the WPA payroll. [3] Many people benefitted from these programs and some FWP writers became famous, such as John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston. [3] These writers were considered to be federal writers. [3]