Works Progress Administration in Georgia photographs, 1936

Summary

Creator:

United States. Works Progress Administration

Date:

1936

Extent:

1 Linear Feet 3 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Works Progress Administration in Georgia photographs, ms996, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of photographs depicting W.P.A. activities in Fulton and DeKalb Counties in 1936. The photographs provide good visual evidence of the extensive work done and include such diverse projects as the construction of Community houses, parks, roads and sewer systems; Federal Theatre productions and immunization clinic programs.

Arrangement:

Organized into five scrapbooks and one folder of loose photographs. Complete indexes are in the back of each scrapbook, all of which are duplicated in the working folder.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Scrapbooks.
Photographs.

Names:

United States. Works Progress Administration
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Preferred citation:

Works Progress Administration in Georgia photographs, ms996, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.