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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 posters: Posters from the WPA at the Library of Congress; Libraries and the WPA: The WPA Library Project in South Carolina; South Carolina Public Library History, 1930–1945; WPA Children's Books (1935–1943) Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book; WPA murals: Database of WPA murals Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
The Children Remember is an 87-minute film that brings together a revealing and stirring collection of oral history spoken by thirteen candid survivors of life in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s at the Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children. It was completed in 2002, after a two-year production process.
The collection of the libraries were focused on children's books. [3]: 69 Maggie Mae Smith, a supervisor at the Whitley County Pack Horse Library wrote that the children all ran to meet the book women, saying, "Bring me a book to read." [3]: 69 For adults, the collection focused on current events, history, religion and biographies.
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.
WPA programs also supplied clothing, and canneries were used as teaching aids and product generation. Layettes and hospital sundries were made for public institutions and other WPA nursing projects. Maintenance of the barracks, housekeeping and kitchen duties along with instruction in economics and cooking were integral to the residential ...
WPA—Works Progress Administration projects in the state of West Virginia. Pages in category "Works Progress Administration in West Virginia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Collectively, the artists of the New Deal produced a vast archive: Murals, including 1,100 post office murals , [6] free-standing and bas relief sculpture, an estimated 30,000 posters, [7] more than 700 books and pamphlets and radio scripts, [8] and architectural details for scores of public buildings, in a style now called WPA Moderne. [9]