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A photo of a California Federal Writers' Project location within a Works Progress Administration building in Oakland, 1940 Poster for the Illinois Writers’ Project radio series Moments with Genius , presented by the Museum of Science and Industry ( circa 1939)
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. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in ...
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. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and ...
A significant aspect of the Works Progress Administration was the Federal Project Number One, which had five different parts: the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Historical Records Survey. The government wanted to provide new federal cultural support instead of ...
An example of one of the Federal Writers' Project's books. 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]
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. The official mission statement was the "discovery ...
Pages in category "Works Progress Administration" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... Federal Writers' Project; Florence Kerr; G.
The Federal Writers' Project was created in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration as a source of employment for teachers, writers, historians, and other white-collar workers. [3] By the 1940s, administrators of the FWP were actively looking for new projects after the completion of the popular American Guide Series. Katherine Kellock ...