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  2. American Guide Series - Wikipedia

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    New York: New York: a Guide to the Empire State. New York: Oxford University Press. 1940. HathiTrust: Internet Archive: North Carolina: North Carolina: a Guide to the Old North State. 1939. Google Books: Internet Archive: North Dakota: North Dakota: a Guide to the Northern Prairie State, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1938: Google ...

  3. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

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    WPA digital collection at the New York Public Library; WPA Music Manuscripts at Wayne State University Library is a digitization project that contains 174 images of WPA music copies from 1935 to 1943. United States Work Projects Administration Polar Bibliography at Dartmouth College Library

  4. America Eats - Wikipedia

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    America Eats! On the Road with the WPA- the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2009. Kurlansky, Mark. The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food from the Lost WPA Files. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010.

  5. Federal Writers' Project - Wikipedia

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    It was one of a group of New Deal arts programs known collectively as Federal Project Number One or Federal One. FWP employed thousands of people and produced hundreds of publications, including state guides, city guides, local histories, oral histories, ethnographies, and children's books. In addition to writers, the project provided jobs to ...

  6. Victor F. Ridder - Wikipedia

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    He served as president of the New York State Board of Social Welfare from 1929 to 1939, [3] [4] [5] and as New York City administrator of the Works Progress Administration from October 1935 until his resignation in July 1936 (effective August 1.).

  7. Public Works Administration - Wikipedia

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    The PWA should not be confused with its great rival, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), though both were part of the New Deal. The WPA, headed by Harry Hopkins, engaged in smaller projects in close cooperation with local governments—such as building city halls, sewers, or sidewalks. The PWA projects were much larger in scope, such as ...

  8. Federal Project Number One - Wikipedia

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    Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...

  9. Women's Prison Association - Wikipedia

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    In this same period, WPA established a variety of programs for HIV-positive women involved in the New York criminal justice system. 25% of criminal justice-involved women in New York are HIV-positive. WPA programs include education and discharge planning in the city jail and state prisons, as well as case management services that can providing ...

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