Works Progress Administration (WPA) of Georgia miscellaneous papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Works Progress Administration (WPA) of Georgia miscellaneous papers
Creator: Hargrett Library
Inclusive Dates: 1934-1942
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 Linear Feet 2 boxes
Collection Number: ms3674
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

The collection consists of miscellaneous writings and compilations of historical records collected and compiled by workers of the Works Progress Administration of Georgia and Georgia Writers' Project from 1934-1942. Inculded are the Works Progress Administration of Georgia History Records Survey, Field Worker's Correspondence Forms; State Editorial Identification Forms; Questionnaire to all mayors for data on points of interest in cities; Federal Writer's Project, Instructions for Architectural Series, American Building Materials; and correspondence from Works Progress Administration of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, regarding compilation of The American Guide and the State Guide. The remainder of the collection contains histories of Georgia cities, towns, and people, including (but not limited to) hospitals, parks, military organizations, landmarks, music, architecture, and agriculture.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Works Progress Administration (WPA) of Georgia miscellaneous papers, ms3674, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2020.

General Notes

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) of Georgia miscellaneous papers collection is an aggregation of papers culled from vertical files that were housed in the Georgia Room at The University of Georgia Main Library. Due to the move from the Main Library to the Special Collections Libraries building in 2012, the vertical files were dismantled. Materials in this collection, donated over the course of a few years, were donated by different members of the Work's Progress Administration, and now make up Works Progress Administration (WPA) of Georgia miscellaneous papers.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Cities and Towns
box	folder
Request box
1	1	Correspondence, forms, instructions, 1935-1939
1	2	Albany (1st brick residence)
1	3	Athens
1	4	Atlanta (hospitals, parks, military organizations, landmarks), 1937-1942
1	5	Augusta (music)
1	6	Cartersville (architecture), 1936
1	7	Columbus (The Columbus Enquirer-Sun-Ledger), 1936
1	8	Darien (Bank of Darien), 1939
1	9	Greensboro (Cobb-Dawson Home)
1	10	Griffin (agriculture, proposed booklets, mills, homes, gravestones), 1937-1939
1	11	Indian Springs
1	12	LaGrange
1	13	Macon (music, mounds), 1939
1	14	Midway records, Index of names
1	15	Rome (Chamber of Commerce)
1	16	Savannah (facts, the Pirate House, Telfair Academy), 1936-1941

 

2. People
box	folder
Request box
1	17	Alfriend family and Pocahontas, 1939
1	18	Bibb, William Wyatt, 1940
1	19	Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1940
1	20	Brown, Joseph M., 1937
1	21	Hill, Benjamin Harvey
1	22	Howley, Richard, 1939-1940
1	23	Langworthy, Edward, 1939
1	24	Lawton, Alexander Robert, 1939
1	25	Lee, James Wideman, 1938
1	26	Lee family of Billy's Island, 1938
1	27	Lumpkin, John Henry, 1938
1	28	Verot, Jean Marcel Pierre Auguste, 1939
1	29	Walsh, Patrick

 

3. Georgia Subjects
box	folder
Request box
2	1	Agnes Scott College, 1940
2	2	Agriculture, 1941
2	3	Andersonville National Cemetery, 1941
2	4	Andersonville Prison Park, 1941
2	5	Argyle Island, 1938, 1941-1942
2	6	Arts and crafts, 1938, 1941
2	7	Banking, 1941
2	8	Barnsley Gardens, 1941
2	9	Bibliographies, 1936
2	10	Civil defense
2	11	Civil War, 1938, 1941
2	12	Coast and geodetic surveys, 1934-1936
2	13	Composers, 1939
2	14	Confederate monuments
2	15	Cotton and cotton manufacturing, 1939
2	16	Counties in Georgia, 1936
2	17	Creek Indians, 1941
2	18	Customs of North Georgia, 1937
2	19	Eagle Mounds, 1941
2	20	Education, 1941
2	21	Etowah Mounds, 1941
2	22	Flora, undated
2	23	Forestry, 1937-1940
2	24	Fort Hawkins, 1941
2	25	Fort Mountain State Park, 1940
2	26	Fort Pulaski, 1941
2	27	General information on Georgia, 1937
2	28	Geology and mining, 1938-1941
2	29	Health, 1939, 1942
2	30	Hydro-electric power, 1941
2	31	Indian Springs State Park, 1941
2	32	Little Ocmulgee State Park, 1939
2	33	Margravate of Azilia, 1936
2	34	Mercer University, 1937
2	35	National and military parks in Georgia
2	36	Pimento pepper
2	37	Points of interest in Georgia, District 2
2	38	Population, 1938
2	39	Religion, 1936
2	40	Scotch Highlanders, 1941
2	41	Spring Bank
2	42	State land, 1940
2	43	State parks, 1937
2	44	State song , 1940
2	45	S.S. Savannah , 1941
2	46	Steamboats
2	47	Surrency ghost
2	48	Tattnall County Prison, 1937